Originally published at: YET ANOTHER CRYPTO-CURRENCY HACK...
While you’re contemplating the risks and dangers of “super-dooper intelligence” (Mr. President, why stop at “super-intelligence”?), you might want to add into the mixture the following ingredients: hacking rogue artificial intelligence “agents” acting on their own that are: programmed by hostile state or non-state actors, and all those crypto-“currency” platforms out there. Stir thoroughly, and…
I don’ believe them for a moment. How can you verify their ‘truth’?
I think Binance Boys just played (on the stock/bond/cryptomarket) it away, or just stole it and orchestrated a ‘hack’ and blamed it on the North-Koreans. It’s not that elaborate, it is believable and logical, and the ‘North-Korean hackers’ already has a certain ‘track-record’ (which you couldn’t verify either), and we ‘know’ that they are bad guys, but we like them in secret, since they are the communist Robin Hoodies of the block. We can even bash Trump with it, if he dares to make another move with Kim Jong in the future.
Perfect narrative. But: You tell me.
I remember Dirksen and his: "A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon your talking real money. AI-assisted search engines; seek-and-destroy “truths”, via cognitive outsourcing.
Unfortunately, eroding numerous vital critical thinking skills - in ways too many - will barely notice!
In grade skools, where young learners are assisted by ChatGPT.
What young minds will reach for, whenever the work gets hard.
Which is to say, whenever the work MATTERS MOST!!!
I had to chuckle when I read “U.S. Secret Service” = JFK’s Shakespearean, ET TU BRUTUS!
‘Working around the clock counting" how much they stole - versus, what the narrative called for!
Yes! I have that dreaded comically editing as-I-read syndrome!
Acquired tastefully, from those way too many laughable - DC News Outlets’ - Comic Headlines!
[Today elections headlines - tragically - a deadly, comic farce]
The most perplexing problem in the theft; where the heated arguements, were over which of those countless secret-back-doors - were to be used? That is subsequently, burned by “discovery”?
Unfortunately, the back doors out-numbered the bitcoins!
All due the preferred logic of: Occom’s Chain-Saw!!!
[upgraded the 14th century razor standards to: the 20th-Worst Centuty Chainsaw Standards]
You know its getting bad when the default bad guy; is bummped-up northwards, from Russian to:
North Korea, a summa cum lade PATSY - extraodinaire!
[N. Korea has those stolen U.S, printing Ben Franklin plates - extraordinaire? - of course]
MI$$ION ACCOMPLIED!!! = Another Revenue $tream = Never Give A Sucker An Even Break!!
Kind of like the: AI & Data Centers $cam = Another of those newly engineered Revenue $tream$!!!
Enter the DRAGON!! = TOKENIZATION = $TABLECOIN$ !!! = BLOCKCHAIN$ = DIGITAL PRI$ON$!!