Yesterday I began the exploration of what interfacing a human's brain with a computer is like from a physiological standpoint. How can I relate to all of you how hard this is on a person. Their body is still organic and computers are not. Life is so many things, but one thing that it is not, is controlled by a computer. Life can be defined in so many ways, but the choice to link organic life with artificial intelligence is one that must be made with a lot more caution. In Palm Springs, California, we can show the entire world what it is like when the choice to link organic life with a computer is controlled by the "wrong kind of person". Lori LaFond is the wrong kind of person to make that choice for all of humanity.
First of all, Lori LaFond does not believe in God. I know what scientists would say about God and technology. Scientists are based in a world of proof. You have to prove to many of them that God exists or at least that God created man, that's not an easy task, I assure you. There are, however, ways that even the agnostic can see that certain choices by man interrupt the process of understanding life. Life, as we understand it, is about human experience, not a computer that sits on your desk and waits for a human being to turn it on. As human beings we still can not quantify what life means to every single person, so how can we allow some to make choices for us, when none of us can agree where life begins, what life entails and what parts can be enhanced by technology. In our never ending search to "make life easier", we've forgotten that we don't really know how to define it.
When the Oppenheimers taught the world how to split an atom for power, they didn't quite understand that splitting the atom would become such a powerful weapon against humanity despite the power created by doing so. The atomic bomb was initially thought of as a way around fossil fuels, a great concept, that turned into a more dangerous situation for humanity than fossil fuels created. What was once a positive innovation for humanity became the ultimate destructive device.
Sometimes technology moves so fast that we don't think. In a way, we are fortunate that Lori represents all things bad when it comes to human beings linking with technology. The human element that she brings with this combination is greed, torture, humiliation and what she calls "survival of the fittest", but is it really? I think what I have learned from Lori is the worst that humanity has to offer. To her, brain linking and brain computer interfacing is a way to steal, hurt, disease, terrify and torture people into getting what she wants. Is this the kind of person we have calling the shots? I can't imagine a less qualified human being on this planet than Lori. She is a sociopath with no feelings, no remorse, no responsibility...just "take what I want and fuck the rest." Is it wise to allow someone to have this much control over other human beings? How can equality ever be achieved with someone that creates a class of human being that controls your thoughts? It can't. She is the wrong person of all wrong people to have this kind of technology. It, in her hands, benefits her while stealing from society. This isn't an innovation, it is a terrorist act.
Let's look at Mark Zuckerberg. I like this guy and I'm not ashamed to admit it. He came up with facebook an innovative way for friends, family and others to communicate to others in a forum where other people can read, comment and suggest. Facebook is an innovation that was meant to be human, but one thing that many people, including Mark, didn't consider is that there is an element of human that isn't always helpful, loving, peaceful, kind or thoughtful. You see it in the negative comments that people post, you see it in the creation of false profiles. You see that people are jealous, envious, manipulative and, unfortunately, sometimes evil. They are destructive to others...humanity takes a hit. There is something about human beings that makes them fallible...it is what makes us human afterall...being different. That scares people as much as it inspires them.
Mark Zuckerberg learned this problem, though I am sure it existed for him long before this. He learned that his simple website can be used for some very evil purposes. When someone, for example posts, "we are having such a good time in Jamaica", someone out there is thinking, "they aren't home so I can rob their house!" Instead of friends and family getting a update, criminals are getting a plan together. There are always two sides of a coin, but I would suggest that there are three. There's heads, tails and then there is the round part between both sides and I think that's where most people live. It's not thought of, but that's where most of humanity exists. We're that round part of the coin, like on a U.S. quarter, where the ridges and lines are.
I like to think of those lines as attachments for humanity that sometimes extend to the positive side of the coin, but also extend to the negative. How many purely evil people do you know? Not that many, but they have half of the coin represented. Then again how many purely good people do you know, maybe a few. Most people live on the edge of the coin thinking that they are on the positive side. We, as humanity, are on the edge. Most of us are trying to get to the positive, let's say "head's" side of the coin, but we are forgetting that there are others that either reside on the "tail's side" or are working to get there. Prison is full of "tail's side" people or people that were moving in that direction. What Zuckerberg forgot was that as secure as he thought he needed his system to be for a "look what we're doing on vacation" site, became something else when someone decided that the information about those vacationers was far more valuable than pictures from Jamaica. There are "head's people", "tail's people" and "edge of coin" people.
I think what helps to create some of these, "leaning toward the tail's side" people, is the privacy of the home computer. People will do some of the most fucked up shit if they think nobody will find out. Lori is one of those people. Actually, I think she is "all tail" no "head"...um, no lesbian pun intended. (poor girl, doesn't know what she is missing)
Mark Zuckerberg's facebook is a wonderful thing in it's inception, but what it has become is human. Predators are more likely to strike when they can do it from the privacy of their own home. Some just plant some nasty comments to make the page owner feel bad. Others use the system negatively to stalk people while they pretend to be someone prettier or more handsome. (Side note, have you ever noticed that people that place fake ads always "pretty up"? I mean they make themselves into someone more attractive and wealthier...never do they downgrade, it would defeat their purpose, right?) I've also noticed that handsome and pretty people, use their own photos because they know what they look like...it's an odd fact that people that are considered more handsome are going to be more apt to contact you if you are too.
Rarely will you find an "attractive" person saying, "I'm into an uglier girl that is plain and doesn't do anything..." It may happen, but let's face it facebook is about validation. We want to know that people are interested and that they agree with things...only problem is this. One negative comment can make a thousand thumbs up, disappear. This is human. This is what is real. This shows you that there are three sides to a coin. Positive commenters, negative commentors and the rest of us. If you have learned the value of "saying nothing if you have nothing nice to say" congratulations, you still have a conscience. I like knowing you.
Is there anyone out there that really believes that a negative commentor isn't looking for a fight? A war of words? A Twitter war? There are instigators and peace makers...the internet has taught all of us that lesson. I won't allow any comments on this blog because I wanted to keep it organic to me. The only time that I did allow comments, Lori posted one for Ken Frank...it looked like this:

