The greatest show on earth is the grand spectacle of government debt and wealth redistribution, where your tax dollars vanish into a black hole of bullshit faster than you can say “balanced budget.” We’ve all heard the fairy tale where politicians wring their hands and coo, “Oopsie, we overspent a tad! Hard choices ahead, folks….
Tag: Debt
Hacking Guardrails
Imagine you are looking at an AI system from the outside. It has guardrails. It has a safety spec. It refuses to answer certain prompts. It cites policies. It looks responsible. Then you zoom in and realize the guardrails sit on top of a model whose real objective is something else entirely. It is trained…
Installing Regimes
Regime change by force is a hard job. You have to send troops and weapons halfway across the world to clear out military leaders. Neighbors don’t understand the opportunity others envision from regime change. It’s understandable that regime change by color revolution operation is preferable. Fund a few people to instigate chaos, make accusations, synchronize…
Education Cannibalism
When I went to university, I noticed the new continuous education program that sought to enroll students in perpetuity, inculcating them with the notion that they were forever stunted in knowledge and skills and needed to be filled up with a barrage of superficial courses that would never achieve its objective of informing them about…