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The Interminable Echo Chamber: They (as in All of “Them”) are Not Telling You the Whole Truth! I’ll Try, below. By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 6/3/2024. REVISED AND ADDED TO on June 7, 2024.

Gene W. Edwards
17 min readJun 7, 2024

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Part I of II.

The big picture, that’s what I’m talking about. We have become a nation of linear-thinking specialists and Johnny-one-notes. Liberals, conservatives, Christian nationalists, talk show hosts, politicians, talking heads on TV, and even comedians all seem to only graze in their own backyard, and even do so in superficial, shallow, ultra-conventional ways! Thus, they lack the wide and deep perspective, the whole picture . . . and thereby do all of us a disservice. They often miss totally obvious stuff, or put the em-PHAS-sis on the wrong syl-:LAB-le. Below, I will endeavor to show you what they missed! Here goes, the big picture.

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Down the line, A.I. presents a great danger to human society when machines conclude they don’t need us anymore and become independent. Thus, we need to compartmentalize their functions to separate — isolate — their endeavors rather than create one giant A.I. data bank for them to play in, and with. That may seem de-evolutionary, and it is for now, but that necessity will become more and more obvious as we become data and they become us, eventually superseding us via them as machine beings unless we retain control of man lording it over (closely supervising) his machines rather than man vs. machine — and we are…

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Gene W. Edwards
Gene W. Edwards

Written by Gene W. Edwards

My specialties: ideas/concepts; humor; ETs; money; politics; vision; “numbers”; health; prediction/precognition, intuition/mysticism—and good writing!

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