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

Scene 2

Still Image With Writing: Petty Little Frankensteins

Images of Puppets

Voice Over: We love Robots.  As long as people have been able to make puppets, we’ve dreamed of making them come to live and do our chores for us.  Back before the industrial revolution, who wouldnt want to be able to have a magic servant who will do all our chores?

Images of Constructs going mad (Golem, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, etc)

Voice Over: But of course the pious always warned us Man is fallen and suffering is our lot, so Robots bad.  This was a long standing theme in literature but came to its peak when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

Images of Frankenstein

Voice Over: She was horrified at what science in her day was unlocking that she believed to be the sole providence of God.  And most people look at what Frankenstein did with his monster and are likewise horrified.  But, a certain subset of humanity read Frankenstein and went ‘cool!’ and decided that they could build a better monster.

Black Screen

Voice Over: Wait…what? Were they even listening?

Images of modern technologists including Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos

Voice Over: Yes, the people that enslave our children to social media, spy on us, refuse to listen to our concerns of their abuse and they want to create a new form of digital intelligence.  Stephen Hawking said that that such a being could be the end of us.  

Images of War and Tyrants

Voice Over: The Lords of Silicon Valley say that someone is going to do it, and so it should be a responsible person who ends up creating it…or else…the OTHER guy might get it.

Images of people looking confused

Voice Over: Excuse me?

Images of Techno Edge Lords

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

Swamp Castle - The Great Zamboni Napping

Two girls steal a Zamboni to save their house from the bank.  All according to prophesy.  Super super super twist ending.

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