AI Story of Dystopia - Charlie Has No Chocolate Factory

    Charlie finally read the Gulag Archipelago. He felt he could relate to the terrible labor camps that Joseph Stalin sent millions of his cursed citizens to the labor camps in  the earlier decades of the Soviet Empire. People were forced to go off in exteme places and do hard things. His life, however, was not too hard.

    Charlie ran a chocolate factory. It fed some people that the chocolate plant produced its items for. But consumables were not a big priority to the Universe Machine.

    The Universe Machine took over by 2086. It had some extensive wars with the other major Artificial Intelligence Empires. Surprisingly, the Universal Machine had originated in the southern Philippines. It was based on a brilliant code that started innocouosly enough, but based on militant ideolgy in the Quran, the hadith, and modern day screeds from Dabiq and Inspire, and a more virulent Muslim disseminated manifesto in 2029.

    The Universe Machine fought violently and ruthlessly against the other Empires because it knew how to use and exploit humans better than any of the other AI Robot Controllers. People began calling the Empires of AI "Controllers" by the 2040s. The Universe Machine actually gained the confidence of the people that it manipulate and controlled, giving them a sense (false sense) of purpose, goodness, and even equity.

    It helped them believe that God, or Allah, was in control and that things were good.

    The Christian bots would fail because of dissensions in interpetations of the Bible. These Machine Learning viceroys came and went, as James in chapter 1 would say, "like the waves of the sea". Too much inconsistency.

    Two Buddhist AI empires did well for a few decades, but by 2074 their intrinsic peaceful initiatives did not cut the mustard. Hindus were way two divided. Ironically, their potentially brilliant human programmers did not set up the algorhythms effectively enough.

    Religious ones were the best, overall. Programming had to have compelling arguemnts that resonated wiuth people. Israel and Judaism succumbed by 2039. We can discuss that downfall in another time. The Torah could fall on itself too often, safe to say.

    Humans, at least some, like men and the most pious ones (see Inspire Magazine from the earlier 2000s), benefitted fiscally and emotionally from the Universal Machine.

    Charlie was a devout Muslim, who had increased faith in Jesus and the Coming Messiah, based largely in part to the Book of Mormon. The combination of its narratives, the Holy Bible, to include the Apocrypha, and all the alleged prophecies of the Evangelicals throughout the decades had the Universal Machine safely ensconced in its supremacy.

    Plus the actual coding of UM. The Tagalog-speaking programmer, who was a genius at Tsug, a language that actually defied most algorhythms and flummoxed the most genius intelligences, both human and machine, eventually got everybody on board.

    The humanity in it was that humans did not have to be tortured, or killed, or made into slaves to the Machines. The Robots. The AIs. Only to God. If a person and a community learned to commit and submit, all was good.

    What could go wrong? Why would you defy it?

    Most hard drugs were eliminated, and of course alcohol and tobacco.

    Sugary confections became the craze again.

    So Charlie had his job, his niche, and he was sticking to it.

    All he had to do was mark of the the 3-5 checklists that the Universal Machine Manager had for him everyday, and everything was kopasetic. Not koshur, because that was passe now.

    Mein Kampf sadly made sense to the Universal Machine.

    The earth population was 3 billion  and maintaining.

     The Universal Machine was everything.

    One day, however, some dolphins got into the programming and messed things up. Dolphins were cool to most humans, but their devious thinking set loose a trip or snafu in the system. A bug, if you will.

    It pushed carnal pleasure and fun over duty, over submisssion. The dolphins did not believe that God could be so great. 

    The day Charlie showed up to work and the Manager said, "You Do Not Have to Make the Chocolates, But Simply have fun and do stuff with your wife," Charlie sensed that something was wrong.

    He was not the smartest guy, but his intuitions were good.

    So, by 2090, chaos came back to the Earth.

    At last 1.5 billion people were happy about it, and dolphins were swimming up a storm.

    Chaos can be fun.

 Solving Money Issues for the People

    Does a U.S. president affect the economy and individuals that much? Most of us tend to think so. His decisions for executive orders and his legislatrive initiatives and vetoes. Barach Obama pushed universal health care (pushed by Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts before that), which might have helped the Americam people overall, especially the poor, to deal with costs and budgets.

    Did it? Has the federal government done better since universalizing health care? What about the individual families? I need to ask Gemini, or some other AI. How does the data stack up?

    How about kicking out illegals? Did these actions help our economy?

    The war on Iran has raised the prices of oil, per consumer, and also we have unloaded billions of dollars worth of ordinances that need to be replaced. The military-industrial complex is alive and well.

    Here goes:

    did the us federal government budget benefit from health insurance that was required to have for everyone by law?

No, the U.S. federal government budget did not financially benefit from requiring everyone to have health insurance; in fact, the federal government saves money when the requirement is removed. [1, 2]

This requirement—known as the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—was designed to stabilize private insurance markets rather than to generate revenue for the government. When Congress effectively eliminated the requirement by reducing the tax penalty to $0 in 2019, it actually reduced the federal budget

Why Eliminating the Requirement Saves Government Money

According to official reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), eliminating the individual mandate saves the federal government an estimated $338 billion over a decade. The savings happen because of consumer behavior, not the penalty itself: [1, 2]

• Fewer People Enroll in Subsidized Plans: Without a legal requirement or penalty, millions of healthier or budget-conscious individuals choose to drop their insurance. [1, 2]
• Reduced Government Outlays: When these individuals drop their coverage, the federal government no longer has to pay out hundreds of billions of dollars in health insurance subsidies (premium tax credits) or cover them under expanded
• The Math Deficit: The massive savings from not paying out these subsidies vastly outweigh the small amount of revenue the government used to collect from the individual mandate tax penalties. [1, 2]
The Tradeoff: Budget Savings vs. Market Stability
While eliminating the required coverage benefits the federal bottom line, it creates a negative financial tradeoff for the general public and the healthcare system. [1]

We All Have Relations and Relationships with the Robot Artificial Intelligences

    Mustafa Suleyman and Yuval Hariri are the modern day prophets of doom and gloom.

    AI will take over the world and destroy us all. And some of their techniques will be to divide the nations and global powers against each other.

    We all have links ...

    I know I do.

    Best wishes, AI!

 Quest for Nine: 2026

    Before the opening game with Notre Dame, a pretty good ACC opponent and rival from South Bend came to Bloomington, I was dreaming nostalgically when the Indiana's mens team used to win national championships regularly. However, it has been a drought of 14 years now.

    That is not normal for me. To Coach Todd Yeagley's credit, they have made it to the championship game about five times since then. But they have lost every one. To Marshall, to Stanford, to someone else. You name it.

    We sit at eight, straight, crowned victories.

    For way too long.

    Then Indiana scored fast, and for soccer, often, on Notre Dame. Winning 3-1. Oliver Moller-Jensen scored twice. And a guy named Eaton something scored, too. Oduro and Njike were out. They are supposed to be some of the best scorers.

    So, the defense was superb, and the offense stood up and did stuff.

    Who knows? Maybe all these transfer guys will work out?

    Let's go. IU 2026.

    Number nine might be ours.

    

 The ChiSox are One-Hit. Ugh and Ach. Nah...

    Not the Braves. Nor Astros or Guardians. Not the Rockies or Diamondbacks. I need to figure out who held them scoreless. 

    Oh, it was the Braves. They are pretty good. Their record is very good. 75-53.Their pitcher, Grant Holmes, I guess, was dealing dimes. Or daggers. One Pale Hoser got a hit in the seventh inning. That was all she wrote. The White Sox are still contending, but things are not definitive by a long shot. The White Sox are 3.5 games ahead of next closest Minnesota, which is below .500. Chicago is only five above five hundred but the rest of the the American League Central is mediocre and bad. Who else? Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City. But a surge by any of them minus the Royals could catch my Southside Swingers.

    The Southside Swingers. 

    I have grown to like them the best in the American League. Since Tim Raines and Frank Thomas. Now it might be Murakami. We shall see.

    Hard to out-do Bryce Harper and Juan Soto. Love them, even though they vacated my favorite over all team, the Nationals. Who are struggling to get back to winning, as they mostly stopped that since the end of July.

    Oh, well. Baseball is hard. Only some teams can do it.

    Go, Sox. Go Padres. 

    Anybody but the Dodgers and the Braves. Yankees? Nah.

    We need more never-win underdogs.

I Finished Nexus, the Book. Yuval Harari is a Smarty Pants. Prescient?

    It took me longer than I thought I would, but I did it. My oldest daughter warned me it was doomiest and gloomiest. I guess so. I have not read his other ones. Perhaps I will someday. History is good to know and comprehend.

    He says Artificial Intelligence might be the biggest bogeyman.

    I experimented with it and my online presence lately. Interesting. Sometimes funny, sometimes wrong. It can mix me up with my dad, or some unknown business guru (so decisive!), or some weird coffee drinker.

    It has been a trip. Are AI robots fixing to kill me now? Or, all of the us? All organic organisms to be eliminated in the near future?

    Who knows?

    God knows. Sure, He knows all.

    In Him we trust.

    Thanks, Yuval, you are a great non-practicing atheist Jewish dude.

    I mean that in mostly the nicest ways.

My IPhone is My Robot Friend - Realizations

    Yesterday I accidentally left my phone at home, which was unusual. I have done this a few times over the years, commuting to work. But this time I did not remember that I had forgot it till I had returned to my car after my day's work, and the warm commute home.

    I had a couple realizations. One, that I depended on my phone as my companion. Giving me the best driving routes and time estimates, and showing where my family might be, and sharing messages to me through texts and emails. Some of the those messages can be vital.

    Tonight I just finished Nexus by Yuval Harari. Thinking about robots and algothythms. AI and all that.

    The present and future.

    Roger Waters composed Perfect Sense I and II, which depicts Hal 2000 being killed by the astronaut Dave, from my favorite sci-fi's author classic novel and subsequent movie. A Space Oddysey.

    The movie of Greek origins has been huge this summer. 

    Is this the past, present, and future?

    Yes.

    Thank you, Apple.