Edward F. Berger – Thoughts and Reflections

I write about education, social issues, and the evolving nature of society

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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)…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Creating a new life form that is perhaps hundreds of thousands of times more intelligent than any single human being may have screwed us all. In our present economic mindset of greed and profit-driven corporations, we have created competitive entities.…

  • There is consensus among key leaders who believe that we are nearing the end of the American Experience and our constitutional form of government. They fear that a democracy ‘Of By and For The People’ is about to fail under…

  • Hundreds of students from major universities are protesting or taking sides for or against Israel and Hamas and many other important issues. Too many have pronounced their undocumented opinions and loudly stated false truths. As they rant and rave and…

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