Chris Langan on the H1B issue (whatever)
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It looks like there's been a brouhaha regarding H-1B visas and enabling "Team America" to “win” by, if necessary, emptying the Indian subcontinent into the US.
There are several things to bear in mind here.
The majority population of the United States has nothing whatsoever to gain from "AI". The large "stakeholders" of the US corporate-government partnership are its sole beneficiaries, and if there's one thing we know for sure, it is that the fatter these stakeholders get, the faster everyone else wastes away to skin and bones. The US hit its economic peak in the early 1970s, and since then, we've been fed upon by oligarchic banksters and the rest of the world like human blood bags.
The main applications of AI are surveilling and controlling the population. AI has already been thoroughly weaponized against majority Americans, and Americans cannot benefit from jobs given to foreigners or raise families on the associated income.
"Artificial intelligence" is an oxymoron. What techies euphemistically call "AI" is glorified high-power data crunching. There will be no "conscious AI" in the foreseeable future. The industry is up against a theoretical brick wall.
Look at the term "artificial intelligence". It says that AI is about the artificial simulation of the real intelligence that engineers the simulation. Unfortunately, AI cheerleaders make a very common mistake: they swallow their own PR, confuse their simulations with that which is simulated, and snooker themselves with meaningless Turing Tests. "If it looks enough like real intelligence," they gush, "then that's what it is!" But it isn't, and that's why big-tech AI simulation requires whirring, blinking Rube Goldberg contraptions cobbled together with the help of starry-eyed H-1B recipients.
This is not merely a semantic quibble. The point is that we're dealing with two different kinds of process. One is mechanical and comes down to glorified computer programming. The other taps into reality at a deeper level, a level beneath that of computers and computation. There is a mechanically insurmountable barrier between the mechanistic cleverness of AI techies and a true generative system. On the latter, nature has a monopoly, and those who deny it are merely pimping a lucrative illusion for the nefarious ends of fascisto-communistic oligarchs. The oligarchs are the problem and always have been.
Human intelligence occupies a level of existence without which computers and computation would not themselves exist. The transhumanist conflation of data-crunching hardware and software with human minds is misleading and a very dangerous path to tread. Let's be honest: even if AI techies forget to mention this out of sheer ignorance (and at best that's what it is), it's deceitful to conceal this fact from investors and the general public by pretending to know otherwise. Research into AI should continue, but the application-and-monetization phase has been prematurely and dangerously accelerated.
India is very dissimilar to the United States. By all accounts, the US is a joke in India; America, its history and culture, and its majority (White) population are subject to disdain and derision. The Indians, hard-boiled in centuries of caste discrimination, cultural closure, and economic abuse, neither like nor respect us. One gets the impression that most wouldn’t piss on an American if he/she were knocked down and lit afire in downtown Mumbai. In any case, Indian coders can easily work from India. (Ever hear of Skype, Zoom, or hundreds of other such applications? They're all perfect for the remote employment of coders.)
In discussing this topic, some have suggested (incredibly enough) that America is an inferior culture which perpetuates the mediocrity of its majority population. Hence, it is argued that America should not resist foreign upgrades to the mediocre descendants of its founders. However, a little perspective may prove enlightening. The mean IQ of the White North American majority is close to 100 even after 60 years of cultural deterioration and demoralization by domestic enemies in high places including the education system. In contrast, the mean IQ of India is 76-77, just ten points higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa (66-67).
Even if one questions the relationship between IQ and intelligence, IQ is known to correlate very well with job performance. Low IQ and high-tech society do not work well together, and IQ is up to 80 percent genetic. What rational human being could possibly believe that the US can benefit by encouraging migration from such locations even if it begins with seemingly innocuous H-B1 visas for cheap skilled labor? Yes, there are some very intelligent Indians. But Indians are no less susceptible to identity politics than other US minorities, and identity politics has a way of turning economic migrants into ethnic voting blocs that influence immigration policy to increase their own numbers.
The US is being sabotaged and subverted by the very globalists fattening at the AI trough as they weaponize their proprietary AI technology against the majority White populations of North America and Europe. This is a "good deal" for no one but them, and obscuring this fact is not a responsible option.
As for our problem with the alleged "shortage of skilled labor", it could be made to vanish by means of academic reform. Get rid of DEI, lose the for-profit academic business model, remove greedy Harvard-MBA college administrators and faculty trolls bent on indoctrinating Americans and socially reengineering our once-great nation as prescribed by the Frankfurt School, and restore the emphasis on educating real American citizens in real employable fields including the trades. Economic problems should be addressed at the root level, and this (along with purging the government of globalist prostitutes) is how to do it.
Importing foreigners is just a stopgap meant to distract us from the fact that for going on 60 years now, our nation has been slowly and inexorably strangled by globalist parasites and their gulls, shills, and useful idiots. Let’s not let them fool us to death.
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