Last night the Jeopardy game show featured IBM's "Watson" super computer as a contestant. It was matched against two all-time winners on the show. It tied one of the contestants. So the first night of three was a draw between man versus the machine. To make a long story short, it had answers but it didn't understand some of the questions. I.E. some of the answers were non sequitors and didn't address the question . The machine couldn't be trusted .
Watson resembles politicians. We elect politicians to do things for us that we can't do for ourselves. But the pols turn out to be watsons who don't or refuse to fix the problems and just give out no- follow- through campaign pledges. The politians can't be trusted.
Showing posts with label criminal bad judgement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criminal bad judgement. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Criminal Poor Judgement: Extinct Baiji Dolphin & Iraq War
This week saw the rarest of all dolphins, the baiji, declared " functionally extinct ". It had existed in the Yangtze River for the past 20 million years. But with the construction of Three Gorges Dam, the dolphin has not been seen since 2003. The hydroelectric dam provides electricity for a portion of the 1.3 billion Chinese that now ravage that part of China.
This week also saw the hanging execution of Saddam Hussein. So far that is the only dubious accomplishment that our country has gotten for it's 500 billion spent in the ravaging of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Poor judgement was used in both cases.The fact that a handful of dolphins were too much and had to be forced out of existence so 1.3 billion Chinese could " advance" their consumerism is a crime. The fact the U.S. spent 1/2 trillion dollars, killed or dislocated millions of Iraqis while killing or maiming tens of thousands of American soldiers in the pursuit of an illegal war is also a crime.
And what will the punishment be for these crimes? The Chinese in the end will meet the same fate of all overpopulated species-they will starve down to a more appropriate head count. And hopefully the architects of the criminal and illegal Iraqi war should meet a similar Hussein-type fate.
This week also saw the hanging execution of Saddam Hussein. So far that is the only dubious accomplishment that our country has gotten for it's 500 billion spent in the ravaging of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Poor judgement was used in both cases.The fact that a handful of dolphins were too much and had to be forced out of existence so 1.3 billion Chinese could " advance" their consumerism is a crime. The fact the U.S. spent 1/2 trillion dollars, killed or dislocated millions of Iraqis while killing or maiming tens of thousands of American soldiers in the pursuit of an illegal war is also a crime.
And what will the punishment be for these crimes? The Chinese in the end will meet the same fate of all overpopulated species-they will starve down to a more appropriate head count. And hopefully the architects of the criminal and illegal Iraqi war should meet a similar Hussein-type fate.
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