Stephen E Arnold: Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing

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Stephen E. Arnold

Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing

I think it would be helpful to read “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.” The write up is an MBA team effort, and it makes what I think is an interesting point. The cloud makes sense when a company is small and doing the “go fast, break things” stuff. But as the company becomes larger, the cloud becomes expensive and slaps handcuffs on the customer. The MBAs may not agree with my précis, but it works okay for me. Continue reading “Stephen E Arnold: Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing”

Matthew Ehret: From Russell and Hilbert to Wiener and Harari: The Disturbing Origins of Cybernetics and Transhumanism

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

From Russell and Hilbert to Wiener and Harari: The Disturbing Origins of Cybernetics and Transhumanism
As I outlined in my previous article on the Clash of the Two Systems, the end of the 19th century saw a major clash between two opposing paradigms of political economy which has largely been scrubbed out of history books.

Just like today, the two opposing systems were characterized on the one hand, by a demand for centralized control of the world by a unipolar elite yearning to stand above the influence of sovereign nation states like modern gods of Olympus, while the other was premised on a “multipolar” design of a community of sovereign nation states working together on large scale infrastructure and technological progress. One was premised on closed system Malthusian economic standards of adapting to diminishing returns while the other was founded upon standards of ongoing scientific progress generating creative leaps out of the constraints of limited resource baskets.

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Stephen E Arnold: Surveillance: Looking Forward

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

Surveillance: Looking Forward
I read “The Future of Communication Surveillance: Moving Beyond Lexicons.” The article explains that word lists and indexing are not enough. (There’s no mention of non text objects and icons with specific meanings upon which bad actors agree before including them in a text message.)

I noted this passage:

Advanced technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and pre-trained models can better detect misconduct and pinpoint the types of risk that a business cares about. AI and ML should work alongside metadata filtering and lexicon alerting to remove irrelevant data and classify communications.

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Stephen E Arnold: Cyber Security: What Are You Doing?

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Cyber Security: What Are You Doing?
I read “A Federal Government Left Completely Blind on Cyber attacks Looks to Force Reporting.” The write up uses a phrase for which there are a limited number of synonyms in English; namely, completely blind. There are numerous types of blindness. There’s the metaphorical blindness of William James, who coined the phrase “a certain blindness.” The wordy kin of the equally wordy Henry James means, I think, that some people just can’t “see” something. A friend says, “You will love working at Apple.” You say, “I don’t think so.” Hey, working at Apple is super, like the chaos monkeys on steroids.

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Matthew Ehret: Escaping the Brave New World: Transhumanism, Utopias and Eugenics

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

Escaping the Brave New World: Transhumanism, Utopias and Eugenics

What are the roots of the transhumanist movement that is currently shaping so much of today's zeitgeist under such themes as Elon Musk's Neuralink, Ray Kurzweil's “singularity point”, and Klaus Schwab's 4th Industrial Revolution?

In this Escaping the Brave New World Podcast, Chained Muse Editor David Gosselin and Canadian Patriot founder Matthew Ehret unpack the deeper history of transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence and the philosophical roots of the Great Reset by reviewing the eugenics movement that birthed both Adolph Hitler and many of the governing structures of the post-WW2. Among the most powerful of these power structures whose roots are founded in a deeply embedded commitment to eugenics and world government are: Julian Huxley's creation of the United Nations’ Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), G. Brock Chrisholm's role in creating the World Health Organization (WHO), John Rawling Rees' creation of the World Federation of Mental Health and the disturbing ideas of Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener in the creation of a new science of social control called “cybernetics”, “machine-learning” and “transhumanism”.

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Stephen E Arnold: More Search Explaining: Will It Help an Employee Locate an Errant PowerPoint?

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More Search Explaining: Will It Help an Employee Locate an Errant PowerPoint?

“Semantics, Ambiguity, and the role of Probability in NLU” is a search-and-retrieval explainer. After half a century of search explaining, one would think that the technology required to enter a keyword and get a list of documents in which the key word appears would be nailed down. Wrong. Continue reading “Stephen E Arnold: More Search Explaining: Will It Help an Employee Locate an Errant PowerPoint?”

Stephen E. Arnold – Google Search: A Disillusioned SEO Expert Grouses

Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Search: A Disillusioned SEO Expert Grouses

Search engine optimization. Great play by the Google. Lots of “search experts” explaining how to get traffic. When the traffic went away or failed to materialize, these “SEO experts” morphed into Google ad hawkers. Slick. Who knew? Not the SEO crowd but the creeping tendrils of dawning knowledge are now wending their way through GenX and Millennial synapses.

What’s the proof?

I present Exhibit 1, “The Death of Search Engine Optimization.”

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