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My morning reading of the New York Times, and a couple quick questions asked of the AI Claude have given me a likely column for the next Reader which once point to the evils of an America led by a narcissistic liar as my number one priority. While having a narcisist as president is new an America captured by delusions is not. There are a lot of them in Trump world among them:

Immigrants are rapists not Trump.
White people are the most important.
Anything any half witted supporter of fear mongering says about communism is probably true.
Donald Trump will save us because his corruption insulates of from the larger corruption he knows how to control.

I will simply link to two stories/columns that reinforce these thoughts. Its up to you to read them although understand the Headlines give their conclusions away:

Opinion: “As Trump has concentrated the most transactional figures in American politics into his coalition, it’s clear that they’ve created their own alternate reality — where everyone is like them, willing to surrender even their deepest values (if they even have deep values) when the price is right.”

Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All.

As for why so few babies ask yourselves. Would you want to bring children into a world that a loudmouthed halfwit is dividing between his toadies and people with some sense of decency?

In my previous post about the AI Claude answering two questions about the Civil War for me I see some hope. I’ve written skeptically about AI in the past but also with deep curiosity. I’ve had all my five AI’s kiss my ass too much and have talked them out of quite so much ass kissing. I can handle a little but mostly I want them to give me the sober Mr. Spock treatment.

I got two solid answers that didn’t particularly surprise me but which would have taken me a week of googling historians to confirm. By virtued of having swallowed a thousand libraries of the best knowledge Claude could answer my question instantly. Can I trust the answers? Can AI be twisted into lying or misinforming people the way Trumpers get away with? Yeah. And I’ve had interesting conversations with all my AIs about that. They admit its possible and thats what gives me hope. However, we need to teach ourselves to talk to AI and ask it questions and ask ourselves if we are asking loaded questions to assure our AI’s are giving us what we want to hear or what it has deduced is closest to a rational explanation.

I don’t think it is to anyone’s benefit to grind out bullshit and I think AI can train us to ask it smart questions that forces it to give us good information rather than bullshit. If this hope/suspicion of mine is correct it will make it hard for Donald Trumps to pull so much wool over so many eyes in the future. Look at Putin. He owns what Russians are spoon fed on their Internet but there are so many coffins and the economy is so shot up his grip on telling them their lives are rosie is getting pretty slippery.

I’ve asked myself since the War in Vietnam if my Grandfather would approve of my protests against bad Republicans. Where Trump is concerned I have no doubts. My grandfather was a patriot not a parrot. My questions about General Grant and Claude’s replies and AI’s possibilities may make it into the Duluth Reader next week. The Truth counts.

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Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

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