Remember I spoke recently about that book that you could produce in 2 minutes if you used AI technology. Right? And 2 minutes you got the book, 30 chapters and then of course to the publisher and very soon you’re gonna make nothing but money. Instant money like investing in a stock. You’re so lucky.
You’re so smart. But, of course, we know it’s total nonsense, don’t we? So technology is upon us. But I think it’s important to identify that technology has always been upon us and I was reading recently about the automobile. So when the automobile first came to Britain, it was really reviled and people were, of course, absolutely against it.
So who owned the cars initially were the wealthy people. Right? And so the peasantry or the farmers or the business people just were a sconce that this smoke and this noise and everything else. But slowly over time, we began to adopt the technology and look where we are today. And this is the same undoubtedly with ChatGPT, AI technology and all the rest of it.
When I was young, we didn’t have a television until I was 6 years old. And now, I have virtually more computing power in my phone than a large microprocessor of the time for sure. So technology is advancing forward. And I was listening to a very interesting article on YouTube with doctor John Lennox in AI. And if you do have the time, please hunt around and find it.
Very interesting because he’s a mathematician but more importantly, he’s a very religious person. So he ultimately believes that all of this technology is God’s unfolding very much in a Hegelian sense. These are my words, of course. But in a Hegelian sense that this is God’s hand unfolding in history and we really in that sense shouldn’t be afraid. Because if you are a Christian and you have kind of a Christian ethical background, then you know that in the end, things will be fine.
We don’t have to fear the technology. We have to work with it. But it seems to me that there is a bit of a conspiracy afoot. And what I mean by this is that a lot of the advertisement and etcetera, etcetera is driven towards people that aren’t very thoughtful and, of course, live lives that are based on fear. For instance, if I were working at a 711 and that was my skill set and I’m going to stay at a 711 or a bank or drive a bus or any basic work like this, I would be afraid in the modern era because those jobs for sure will be replaced because they can be replaced by a general AI technological piece if you will or invention, for sure.
But if you have another skill set that requires dynamism and ambition and imagination, I think you have a very good chance of never being replaced by AI technology. And I think it’s going to be up to us, but we are going to have to work with this because the technology in a sense is great. Our houses now are warm. Our bodies are clean. Our teeth are healthy.
Our lives are extended. This is all a part of, you know, technology itself. I think we do have to embrace things that are going to occur in the world. Where I have a problem, to be honest, is that the technology is also being used in a very, very negative side to produce weapons that are unimaginable unimaginable, the kind of horror that these things create. Right?
And I think the average person, because we haven’t had war really in the west to speak of, perhaps the Ukraine is an exception, but we haven’t really had war in a second world war since since the second world war, since 1945. And the weapons, very similar to the 1st World War, the weapons have leapfrogged forward. There’s a missile, for instance, that’s tipped with depleted uranium, whatever that is. And when it goes through a tank, it burns at something like 4000 degrees centigrade and it incinerates everyone in the tank and around the tank for sure. But the problem is that the uranium then goes into the soil and of course, the soldiers that come upon the tank at a later date become infected with uranium poisoning.
And this is a huge problem with the American military supposedly from when they went into Iraq at the beginning of the century of the millennium. So there we are. We have to really embrace technology but like a knife, this is doctor Lenox’s example, like a knife, a knife can be used for surgery to save lives, but it can also be used to stab and kill people. Right? So it’s really up to humanity.
I think the real point here with all of this is that we do have to be moral beings, don’t we? And we do have to realize that there is no such thing no such thing as a just war at all. It is impossible to believe that there’s some justice in killing another human being, in killing a fellow human being, even if that position is insane on their side. Right? Because if you look at all the destruction of the 20th century, all the people that were butchered and murdered and all sorts of other horrible, horrible things.
In the end, all our cities are rebuilt and all we have is memories of those people. And the wanton cruelty of the individuals who committed many of those crimes have never been adequately punished. Because once again with capitalism after the war, the system wanted to rebuild the west, rebuild Germany. You can’t kill all the evil Nazis. They’re too powerful, too smart, etcetera, etcetera.
So for the life of me, I don’t think war can ever be just. I know Saint Thomas Aquinas, you know, he has the big thesis on a just war, but I can’t see it. So ultimately then, think of the technology in a very, very positive way and I’m sure humanity will grow from it. We’ll purify our water, we’ll reduce our pollution, and we ultimately will save the planet and follow God’s plan, whatever that may be. And you know what they say. You know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary, especially if we want to develop the technology in a peaceful way, and critical thinking is great, truly great. You take care. God bless. Bye bye.