"Verified" What do we mean by that? that what we are reading is a truthful and honest account but how many minds has it gone through filtered by the prejudices our minds and also others apply.
At the moment I am listening to Robert Galbraith, (pseudonym for J.K.Rowling) book called 'The Ink Black Heart'. Some would argue that it is to do with the battle Rowling had with the transgender row, now voraciously picked up by some of the young to justify whatever they think fit. University lecturers asked to resign from their jobs because of clashing with their students over the use of terminology when they address the student's gender. All complicated and rather minor, given today's real problems with people starving in Gaza and the other wars that surf the world.
The book itself, through the crime detection of Strike and his sidekick Robin, is longwinded. This of course due to the long conversations that go on in forums. Rowling says that the book was written before the uproar about what she had said had arisen. She sticks with what she originally says and of course the fuss will die down.
Computers were invented. But someone forgot to write the rule book and laws that would appertain to their use thereof. We are terrified of A1 and the ability to change photos and words is rather frightening, but how do we police it? Or does it need policing given that the human race is very vocal anyway.
Computers have changed our lives and probably for the better, it has unfortunately unleashed the evil side of mankind as well and eventually cyber crime will warrant real live prison sentences.
Hind Rajab - not to be forgotten.
I am with Rowling on this one. It maybe one of the only times I have agreed with Germaine Greer too.
ReplyDeleteI think Rowling is arguing from a good point and I listened to a Greer video. She said what I would have said, 'I don't think about it' as YP says it is not important enough.
DeleteI do so agree Thelma. I try, now that I am living through 'end of life' care, not to think too much about the future when I leave behind children and grandchildren to face it. Also I agree about how computers and AI together have completely changed our world (and Climate Change too of course). I suppose I am a coward - I make myself look at the News (usually on 231) once a day and that's it. We are all human beings - why can't we live peaceably rather than send generations of young people to the slaughter - and for what? And how can any human being leave people young and old to starve in Gaza.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things caught up in the book with the young male game forums, is how warlike they become and completely without compassion Pat. Hind Rajab is the little 6 year old Palestinian girl, who phoned emergency from the car she was in but in the end both her family and Hind were killed as were the two ambulance men who went to rescue them. War is brutal murder.
DeleteI think computers have improved our lives enormously, but be have not handled the changes they have brought about very well. Many of the challenges were flagged years ago, but big business steamrollered over them.
ReplyDeleteThere is an argument going round between dictatorship and democracy Tasker, I often wonder if it should be applied to the world of computers. They are a great boon but too easy to manipulate.
DeleteThelma, you have made me realize that humans have managed to lie and starve, hurt, kill others way before computers were involved. So we can't really blame computers. "Haters gonna hate..."
ReplyDeleteBut then, good people have always come forward to make things better, eventually, when they can. Life goes on, hopefully...
Yes Ellen, both sides of the coin have to exist side by side and one can only hope that good eventually finds the upper hand.
Delete0.005% to 0.014% of people assigned male at birth (5-14 per 100k) and 0.002% to 0.003% of people assigned female at birth (2-3 per 100k) are diagnosable with gender dysphoria. These numbers are probably on a par with the number of people who think they are lions so why all the fuss about it? Let's focus on more significant things.
ReplyDeleteThe fuss is because it is personal and subjective and there is nothing much better than humans kicking off about something. You have only given the actual factual numbers, there are plenty more who 'believe' they are in the wrong body.
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