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<p>shaiza!</p>
<p>I think the AI Overlords intervened and encrypted my diatribe on
AI Overlords! On the other hand, maybe I'm just clumsy. Let's
try again!</p>
<p>By "try again", i meant I was going to go cut-n-paste the
original message from my sent-box, but find that it-also only
holds an un-decryptable copy? Did I say shaiza! already? <br>
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<p>I shant try to reproduce the muddled slant/rant that is my
signature here, but rather try to offer the summary that is more
apropos for this forum...</p>
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<p>Goodreads reviews categorically diss the organization and
writing of this book... I think that doesn't mean the
contributors thoughts and experience on the topic are not
valuable.</p>
<p>Kissinger hisself has quite the history, starting as Jewish
teen in Bavaria as Hitler (and Hitler youth rose to power), then
emigrating with his family to NY and becoming a US Army
infantryman but with intelligence roles/credentials due to his
fluency in German language and culture. <br>
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<p>He has Nixon-cooties on him, but I think history has proven
that whether I agree with many of his values/ideas, he was a
deep thinker on big scales (global geopolitics with a
modern-history perspective going back at least as far as
Napolean).</p>
<p>If AI is taking over, it is bubbling up from the bottom in the
form of smarter and smarter devices, appliances, and networks of
them (IOT/smart-home, etc) as well as *maybe* from the top
(strategic insights in business, finance, politics, military,
industry, technology-development)?</p>
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<p>Thanks especially to Cody for making the point about Kissinger
being the big-heavy name (not that the others are not their own
big-heavies) on the book! I really should read me some Kissinger
(the Nixon cooties might be dead and dried up enough by now that I
can do that?).<br>
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