R.H. blog

  The age of AI is the inevitable next stage in the evolution of civilization. We must not forget that civilization is, and has always been, one vast machine, in which every wheel and cog is a discipline designed to address a human need. Civilization is concerned with addressing human needs en masse , in distributing to individuals whatever is needed for a comfortable existence. Thus, it lays out a vast network of disciplines to optimize the production and distribution of everything a human could need, and it produces structures and systems to cultivate the collective good. Thus, we arrive at the education system, the healthcare system, the justice system, the political system, and everything that, through organized effort, is designed to produce a desirable effect. Civilization, like any machine, takes natural forces and organizes them to achieve a certain goal. An individual outside of civilization will do the same thing: make use of its surroundings to survive and refine the tec...

 By Timothy Verrinder To understand the complex world around us, it is helpful to simply imagine everyone as children. Somehow, the thought of a boardroom of children in suits and dress skirts with pen, paper, phones and coffee cups makes the content of any business meeting seem more accessible. The courtroom with a seven-year-old on trial before a pudgy, bespectacled and robed judge and a jury of his “peers” might be another example. Even in politics, where it’s not so much a stretch of one’s imagination to view everyone as children, it is a helpful exercise not just in reducing the complexity of things, but also the intimidation factor which accompanies complexity. Little Mr. Stevens standing on a stool to write on the whiteboard doesn’t quite evoke the intrigue and competition associated with corporate life. The lawyer’s powers of persuasion and legal acumen are rendered laughable as soon as little Ms. Sanchez says “ladies and gentlemen of the jury.” As for politics, well, much ...