Thang Nguyen 555

First Law of Robotics: “A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”.

From within the animal kingdom, species are known to take care of their own e.g. Mother bear waits for her cubs to catch up along a snowy mountain trail.

Yet, recent news ( Meadow’s texts to be more exact ), we had an X-President who ignored his “cub”‘s plea, his trusted advisors’ pleas and Fox News anchors’. Even his daughter edited her tweet, to erase history, after cheering “zeroes” as heroes and patriots ( Keepers of “Oath” are now up to their ears in prison terms).

Looks to me we have evolved beyond what we were made out to be: decent human being with a human heart. We might be recalled for a re- calibrate to be at least en par with the First Law of Robotic.

All we’re saying….is give peace a chance… to be and to live with/like human again.

Yet we can’t seem to carry out our (human) duties (despite all the high priests, and high court), judiciary or fiduciary.

On the other hand, we are so jealous – in the lower court – when punishing low-life and marginalised “prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” In short, “an eye for an eye” (the Old Testament) when it comes to blue-collar crimes, and forgiveness (the New Testament) for white-collar crimes. Double-standard and double- interpretation.

I’d prefer North Korea, where laughter was forbidden during the anniversary of the Dictator’s dead Dad. At least, it’s clear cut.

We now know,: “Dad, you’ve got to stop this ….’shit’ before people (and indeed were) get killed.

Like those Watergate’s tapes, which got erased – at least 10 minutes of it – could have shed lights on the situation (at this edit, more revelations came out, w/ Mccarthy flip flop).

We live in an advanced society, with smart phone and dumb people, GPS doesn’t get lost where people do.

Chess players threw in the towel, and AI won the day (at the game of Go).

Very quickly. 24/7 continuous improvement. Software updates, machine learning (present progressive) and soon expired/retired human (who are constantly low-tech like myself).

Back to the recently revealed texts (Verizon, 9000 my last look).

We now know why Fox News host(s) were not professional news folks..

per Acosta: “What’s even more disgusting,” Acosta continued, “is that Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, they’ve been caught red-handed, acting like North Korean state television, lying to their viewers about what happened on that day, covering up the misdeeds of a wannabe dictator, blaming antifa sympathizers for Jan. 6 and downplaying the violence in the days that followed.”

Looks as if they were mere paid commercial announcers and pretty talking heads: “give me the script, I will read it – unedited and unadulterated – from the teleprompter, on air. flawlessly and faithfully, every time and all the time” (then get paid for it). Fox fearless faith.

In short, human announcers have taken on reliable robotic form and function, skipping Robotic First Law ( …by inaction, causing a human to come to harm).

How can these people go to sleep at night? Have they taken any journalism ethics classes, or have any ethics at all?

Still human? with a human heart?

A nation of fanatics, yet criticising North Korea for banning laughters.

We begin to look more like what we hate. In our antagonistic struggle, we have taken on the opposite like a John Woo’s Face Off that we have in time internalised.

I have become my worst enemy, and in looking into that Dark Mirror, I see him, and he me.

Black has become White and vice versa.

Back in mid-40’s, in North Vietnam, servants and hired-hands turned on their land Owners, twisting every nook and cranny, building a “blue-collar” class-struggle case. Toward the end, many were unjustly executed, property completely confiscated. In short, the law can be broken, tweaked and twisted, pre-judged and pre-read-into in worst hermeneutical case scenario: God told me this, God told me that…

I prefer the First Law of Robotics. Or Google’s original founding “Do no evil”. I feel safer with animal and machine than with human. 2021 human. (at this edit, Don Winslow said on PBS weekend that “human has the capacity for both good and evil”.

God, please do not let me wake up in North Korea, or any place resembles it. I want to laugh (the flip side of cry), I want to sing (the flip side of mourn) and I want to stay free (the flip side of thinking we had been freedom fighters, while in fact played…like a fiddle).

Do you want to be heroes or zeroes??????????? Machine or human? Lower species (built to protect their young), or bleeding into the worst kind of human being? I’ve lived long enough. Please put me in a freezer, and wake me up when this is all over…. the Big Lie, and subsequent subversion. Love to see its conclusion though. If 2020 was the year of the virus, 2021 should go down as the year of Human Virus. Transmissible and transmitting fast. Now is the time for a vaccine. And now is the time for redemption. The hour has come…I repent.

P.S. I saw a heart-warming scene today. when I pulled (wrong-way) into a car wash. Turned out, the hand-wash workers took a Christmas break to celebrate the Holidays: chairs, foods, Santa beanies, children, everybody….as low-tech as possible, but it warmed my heart. I ended up buying car-wash supplies at Auto Parts, and DIY.

Congratulations y’ all, for making it through 2021, the year that started out -unlike any other: “Unthinkable”. (And I am not referring to robots without a human heart).