Edward F. Berger – Thoughts and Reflections

Author: EdwardBerger

  • WHO IS IN CHARGE OF YOUR HAPPINESS?

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    EdwardBerger

    Knowing where you stand and how you view issues is directly related to your happiness and … viewpoints evolve over the years. When I was a young pup, say in my 40s, I believed that anyone over the age of 65 should retire and get out of the way. It was easy to discount the…

  • DOES HATEFUL SCREAMING AND BULLYING WORK?

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    EdwardBerger

    Mobs of hate filled students threw hundreds of books onto the fires. Books written by authors that the supreme leaders believed undermined their ability to rule. Why did young people do this? They had been inculcated since the time they were children with the belief that they were purifying their society. They had been taught…

  • WHAT WOULD PUTIN DO?

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    EdwardBerger

    Trump’s narcissistic wet dream is to have power like the men he admires most. His father was a Nazi. Trump kept speeches by Adolf Hitler by his bedside. He dreams of being able to throttle the rule of law and his enemies like his heroes Hitler, Mao, Kim Jong-un, and Orban. Knowing how to game…

  • HAS THE SUPREME COURT LOST ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DIRECTION?

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    EdwardBerger

    The Roberts Court is dominated by men who have been corrupted by politics, power, religion and greed. When the third branch of government was designed it was believed that an appointment for life, limited accountability, and an adequate salary would focus the Supreme Court justices on Constitutional issues and prevent judges from selling out to…

  • ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL

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    EdwardBerger

    The truth is that each of us is unique. How is it then that our schools are not designed around the needs of individuals? They are designed following a false belief that one-size-fits-all. They were designed that way to standardize and control workers who do not question authority and serve like obedient robots. In our…

  • CULTURAL DEATH FROM COMPETITION

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    EdwardBerger

    There is something very wrong with our cultural structure that may make it impossible to build a future with Machine Intelligence. How we operate our social structures exposes ways of dealing with each other that are not individual-centered. Too often we shut down individuals and reward leaders identified in ways that overpower the many and…

  • A TEST IS REALLY A TEACHING TOOL

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    EdwardBerger

    In the last six years the basic ethical standards which guide us have been warped into the acceptance of lying and dishonesty. If we do not change this trajectory we will descend into a dark age. Dr. Edith Hamilton, (1867-1963) educator, historian and philosopher, pointed out that the demise of past civilizations can be traced…

  • MACHINE INTELLIGENCE CAN BE CORRUPTED

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    EdwardBerger

    Part Two: Machine Intelligence is gaining power 24-7, 365 days a year. It never sleeps or rests. It continues to grow at a rate that presently outpaces every human brain by hundreds of thousands if not millions of bits of information. Three or four years ago it was assumed that humans could control AI. It…

  • MACHINE INTELLIGENCE CAN BE CORRUPTED

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    EdwardBerger

    Part One: What current beliefs and activities will determine whether machine intelligence will destroy our species? Machine intelligence requires us to examine the assumptions we have about how our economic and social systems serve humans. What we must deal with is the misinformation that has created this corruption of what is necessary and good; mindsets…

  • WHAT YOU IGNORE MAY END US ALL

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    EdwardBerger

    Our species is creating an intelligence that is far superior to any human mind. We now live in an age of super intelligence, often called Machine Intelligence, which is rapidly gaining control of mankind’s future. Every system we take for granted is no longer as we once understood it. As an educator I have long…