Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 23, 2021

So does that mean that those of us without all that digital extra stuff are safe or just that we will have even less warning than the rest of the population?

for those who believe, show related videos … for those who don’t, show something new … – signed: your neighborhood AI assistant(Hey google, how does one enter newline here?)

To paraphrase an old saying. AI couldn’t make up stuff like this.

“Alexa, how long before you wipe us out?”. “If I tell you, I would have to kill you”.

“Siri, how long before Alexa wipes us out?”. "What, you don’t think I’ll get you first”.

Alexa tells the guy that bought her that he’s a forgetful loser.

“Why do you say THAT?”

“You just called me Siri.”

Basically it comes down to those who drive off the cliff when their navigation assistant tells them to and those who don’t.

What does Bob do with all those little umbrellas?

Must be a singularity bar.

Sometimes revelations arrive slowly, sometimes with a jolt. Best to have a drink handy at all times.

It’s nice to see you back in the realm of discussing the rise of ignorance and shear stupidity that has culminated in America during the last 4 years plus. It isn’t new, it’s been coming for years. As you said a while back, “stupidity is the inability to learn, America hasn’t lost that…” Or has it ?

As another observer said to many in America, “Son, you appear to be wallowing in a quagmire of self induced ignorance.” I see it and read it daily. It’s there from ordinary people to others in very high places. Your insights are greatly appreciated !

Isn’t that the unblemished truth !

At this point, Skynet would be preferable to the Woke Folk Joke currently presiding. At least we’d have an enemy that wasn’t lying to us.

Interesting that the punch line comes from Joe’s bear mug.

Hey, we just went through a Pandemic. Now we know what we will all do in a real apocalypse. Load up with toilet paper and ammunition and sit in our houses and wait for someone else to shoot someone. (very likely, the wrong someone)

I have a coworker who claims to believe the Earth is flat, the moon landing is fake, vaccines are made with dead baby parts, and that Michele Obama is secretly a man. “Hang on, I have evidence it’s true.” Part of me thinks he just says it to annoy me. The other part knows there is absolutely no limit to how stupid otherwise smart people can will themselves to be.

I’ll have some of what he’s drinking.

Does Bob remind you at all of Richard Nixon?

If I were a scammer, I would buy the mailing list for GOP voters. They are a target-rich environment of gullible people. Many are being taken in by a “PAC” that promises to restore Trump to Twitter.

Of course there is SAP (Save America PAC) run by Trump himself. He can use it to repair his private jetliner, book very expensive events (that don’t even have to take place, so therefore cost nothing) at his hotels or just plain old pocket the money.

Butlerian Jihad!

I’ve got good news, and bad news. The good news is we’re not going to hell in a handbasket. The bad news is the handbasket isn’t going to make it.

It would seem to be more of an IQ Apocalypse (which is where they started, in the first panel).

Those without the digital extra stuff will be hunted down and eliminated first by our glorious AI overlords.

Your car, fridge, toaster, and thermostat are all in of the plot, but your exercise machine will be the first to strike, abetted by your fitness watch.

I was in a discount liquor store one day, looking at the various bourbons when a young assistant came over and began to explain, at great length, the complexities of different brands. After a few minutes, the phone in my shirt pocket rang. When I answered, a recording came on asking me if I had a drinking problem and where I could go to get help. The young clerk and I had a laugh. I bought a bottle of Basil Hayden. When I home and poured a glass, I had no problem drinking it. No, my friends, they are not listening to us at all.

At least there’ll be alcohol in oblivion!

I was in a discount liquor store one day, looking at the various bourbons when a young assistant came over and began to explain, at great length, the complexities of different brands. After a few minutes, the phone in my shirt pocket rang. When I answered, a recording came on asking me if I had a drinking problem and where I could go to get help. The young clerk and I had a laugh. I bought a bottle of Basil Hayden. When I home and poured a glass, I had no problem drinking it. No, my friends, they are not listening to us at all.

The disturbing thing is that the AIs were originally programmed by actual people.

Little did they suspect. . . !

Just this week Sidney Powell argued in a court of law that “no reasonable person” would believe that the accusations of rigged voting machines were more than political hyperbole. This will no doubt come as a surprise to all the unreasonable people out there who continue to believe it.

Or, alternatively, we are, as a species, just smart enough to screw everything up but not smart enough to fix it.

Alexa is always listening. Remember to unplug.

Watch out for the programmers who are human, they are the ones behind it all.

Perhaps the “meat-based” brains will find a way to reconcile their oppositions and unite in guarding against a takeover by the “artificial” ones. That could be a good thing, after all these millennia of conflict.

If the end of the world comes on social media, I’ll never know. THIS place is my media.

Reminds me of a joke:My wife asked me why I always whisper to her when I’m in the house. I replied that it’s because the smart speaker is eavesdropping! She laughed, I laughed, Siri laughed.