Swamp Castle - Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Direwolf

In an alternate timeline the assassin of Lincoln runs into a four legged suprise he did not expect.

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 3 (Continued)

 Images of Neuralink and Musk Robots, Boston Dynamics

VO: There are already people talking about uploading our minds.  Granted, serious scientists think that this is still a while down the road, but the money being spent on this is billions not millions of dollars.  As our current population gets older, the forever young generation looks for ways to stay young forever and one of those options is ‘uploading your brain to the internet.’

Images of Ponce De Leon, Fountain of Youth, Immortality

VO: The ramifications about an end of death also makes it even harder for the youngest generation to get ahead.  Whole science fiction stories from Altered Carbon to Lazarus Long have been written about the cost to society if death takes longer or even never happens. In our hyper stratified society; death would be optional for the rich and a necessity for everyone else.  Technology is a tool; the problem is who gets to own the tools, use them and decide how they are distributed, and wealth alone seems a poor choice for immortality.

Images of Rich and Poor

Voice Over: But its worse than that.  What happens if they get a pirated copy of your mind? Silicon Valley not only can’t protect our private data, but they use it for marketing and turn their customers into their product.  They have almost no interest in limiting themselves despite addition, depression, suicidal tendencies and self harm; and we expect them to be trustworthy with our very minds?  If they steal your identity, you spend thousands of hours and thousands of dollars to get it back.  If they steal your mind, you could be a virtual slave until the stars burn out from the skies as millions upon millions of copies of yourself are taken from virtual world to virtual world.

Emmit's Corner - Sunbonnet Tiger

Sometimes Words Make Me Stupid, Sunbonnet Tiger, Failure to Comprehend, Double Standard, Tiny LIttle Toy, The Insecurity Council, Patriarch Kirill, Deworming Deplatforming

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 3

 Scene 3 - Petty Little Frankensteins - Digital Immortality

Images of Upload, USS Mccalister, Caprica

VO: A popular show on Prime shows what would happen if one of the .coms got ahold of the afterlife and mimicked people.   Another popular episode of Black Mirror shows what would happen if a Tech Bro was able to upload the minds of his coworkers.  Caprica shows a digital duplicate made from social media and internet footprints inhabiting the minds of the Cylons.

Images of children, racial abuse, and social media abuse

VO: That sounds like science fiction, right? And yet we know that the algorithms that social media and major tech companies show racist bias, sexist bias, create addiction in children and that self regulation has totally failed with these companies.  If they could create a world where they could upload our minds into their nightmare dystopia would they hesitate?

Images of Neuralink

VO: The barrier between mind and machine are breaking down,  Right now, we have technology that allows mechanical apparatus to be controlled with the mind.  Its true, that to create the human mind in the internet might require technologies that we dont have access to right now including processing speed.

Images of the human brain

VO: Indeed, the human mind is something we don’t entirely understand.  Some physicists believe there might be a quantum element to our decision making.  But

Images of Quantum Computers

VO: Quantum mechanics is a field we make breakthroughs in every day.  We’re constantly learning.   Think about life before smart phones and after smart phones.  Think about the difference between the 70’s and 80s.  Technology grows very fast, and we could find that the technology for digital immortality creeps up on us faster than the abilities of laws and regulators to adapt to it.

Image of Congress and EU investigating the tech companies

VO: Indeed, it has taken 20 years for Europe to finally catch up to the most flagrant market abuses of Silicon Valley.  And it has the constitutional mechanisms permitting it to do so.  Corruption and Regulatory capture have rendered United States responses pitiful by comparison.  If you think Social Media manipulation, disinformation and addiction is bed

Images of the human soul, purgatory, hell, torture

VO: What would happen if the tech companies could control and duplicate your mind in an environment that they could control? What would they do?

Micronation - Chapter 14 - On the Run

Chester is on the run and decides to turn the tables to try and investigate some information on the Col.

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 2 Continued

 Voice Over: How do we know these guys ARENT the other guy we dont want getting it?

Images of Genesis and Gods creating New Life

Voice Over: OK, lets say you’re going to do this.  You decide that you absolutely must play God and make a new kind of life that could end up killing you.  What kind of person do you want helping you create and instruct this new life?

Images of heroic people throughout history like Einstein, Gandhi, the Dalai Llama, great spiritual leaders and philosophers

Voice Over: People who are kind, educators, know children, like the unknown and that are going to be a positive experience for this new emerging Digital Intelligence?

Images of Dictators, Techno Edge Lords, Mad Scientists, Violence

Voice Over: Or the people who actually are currently paying for this kind of research and feel that they’re entitled to own other people? I mean, I think a simple test should be, if they are terrible with the people they serve for customers or their own employees, maybe we dont have them be in charge of creating a new God?

Images of young children of power including the mutants, superman as a baby etc

Voice Over: Imagine what an achievement for humanity it is if we achieve this, and give life to a new form of Digital Sapience as smart as we are.  Where we can convince it can trust us…or…

Images of Robot violence, AI’s being feared and killed over and over again

Voice Over: Or we could just roll the dice and see what happens.  What’s that phrase? Oh yeah, why not Fuck around and Find Out?

Images of Question Marks

Emmit's Corner - Two Red Wolves

Not Ash, Two Red Wolves, Pointy Red Shoes, Joker's Punchline, Dumbo the CEO, Did You Read The Bill, Eary Edition, Maga Schizophrenia, The Constitution Is Trash

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