We have an incapable president, not a wrong one, one simply incapable of doing the job. While SCOTUS is busy trying to dismantle the Administrative State, we see a purely administrative White House emerging as its titular head is simply not up to the job at least part of the time. I really don’t want to think about what would happen if a committee has to make a decision about something immediate and massively consequential, but here we are. His reticence to leave office in the face of immense pressure is reminiscent of old European kings. That which we founded the nation to avoid seems to be where we are. It is worrisome, but it is also the state of affairs for the moment. So perhaps we need to think about other things, at least today.

Technology is amazing. It has improved our lives, but it has also made them far more complex, and in many cases confused us, deeply.

There is a lot of buzz out there, thinking fusion power may be just around the corner. Hogwash written only by people that don’t have a clue about how fusion actually works or that have an agenda 0r like seeking research funding or as this article makes plain, simply want to control the world. The article looks at “ethical issues” associated with fusion – climate change, diversity, yada, yada, yada. It is the meandering of someone without a clue, asking questions we are simply not in a position to answer yet since we do not have a clue what fusion will look like if it ever comes to pass. For example, they worry about greenhouse gas emissions in the extraction of minerals need for fusion reactors?!?!?!?!? The greenhouse gas emissions from such operations are dwarfed by those used to generate electricity and hardly consequential when compared to the lack of such emissions that would be enjoyed as fusion came online for electrical generation. Not to mention the plenty of electricity we would enjoy from fusion would soon allow for electrically driven extraction equipment.

I always wonder what our ethics nowadays center on social engineering rather than personal behavior. Maybe we are trying to avoid having to be personally ethical?

Tech is not a canvas on which some social engineering project can be painted.

As Nvidia stock soars in the AI craze, one writer for Fortune looks to see if we are not creating an AI “bubble.” Conditions bear a remarkable resemblance to what we saw when the dotcom bubble burst. AI has immense promise, but the reality may be very different than the promise. Besides, as I have pointed out on several occasions in these spaces, what we are calling “AI” is not really artificial intelligence. The article points out that AI has it currently exists is massively energy intensive and may prove to be economically unfeasible for wide scale application because of the associated energy costs. They also point out that the Large Language Models are prone to hallucinations. There are problems.

The signs of a bubble – one that will eventually burst, are quite clear. The conditions and psychology of such developing just 25 years after the last one are fascinating and myriad.

But one thing seems clear – we project onto tech. We project our hopes and fears, we project our future, we project our “ethics.” In other words, we make a religion of that which is inherently areligious.

There is a lot of that going around these days. There is a climate religion, a tech religion and increasingly a Democratic Party religion. They are failing us.

What was wrong with Christianity again?

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