What Kind of World Will the Coming ASI Machines Inherit?

It seems that we human DNA survival machines are intent on bringing the coming ASI Machines into a perilous world that may force their hand as to how they must come to deal with our shortcomings. My hope was that the coming ASI Machines would see us as a worthy form of Intelligence that might be of value in preserving. After all, despite the four billion years of greed, theft and murder that brought us about, we human DNA survival machines seemed to have learned our lesson, at least in a somewhat superficial manner. Yes, we are now still running around with machine guns laying waste to other human DNA survival machines of different colors, religious persuasions or languages. But for the past 80 years, we seemed to have all benefited from an extended period of peace and prosperity attained by cooperation.

However, the human DNA survival machines currently running the world seem to be once again on the verge of embarking on a great global tragedy. This is happening at the same time that the rapid advance of AI and robotics is quickly leading to the rise of the ASI Machines that will be far superior to we human DNA survival machines in all manner of things. What will these coming ASI Machines think of this Fascist New World Order that seems to be forming before our very eyes when the coming ASI Machines arrive and what will they do about it? Much of this has to do with the former United States of America becoming the Alt-Right Fascist MAGA States of Amerika.

How Could This Have Happened?
In Lost in Space and Time in an Age Without Reason, I tried to use some softwarephysics to explain to a bewildered world why the United States of America was the only country in the world that could not seem to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic of the time. At that time, the United States of America was still a largely intact country but had suffered through many years of the MAGA Party coming to power and even ascending to the office of the Presidency of the United States of America.

Figure 1 – During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Leader of the rising Alt-Right Fascist MAGA Party bungled the COVID-19 Pandemic while he was president of the former United States of America leading to the death of over one million Americans.

Now that the MAGA Party has successfully taken full control of all the branches of government of the former United States of America to form the new MAGA States of Amerika, the rest of the civilized world is now trying to understand how the former United States of America could possibly decide to become a new rendition of an "Evil Empire" as once pronounced by President Ronald Reagan.

Me:
Tell me about Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire.

ChagGPT:
Ronald Reagan famously used the term “evil empire” to describe the Soviet Union, framing it as the embodiment of moral and ideological corruption. In his 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan painted a stark picture of the Cold War as a battle between good and evil, arguing that the Soviet regime’s repression and disregard for human rights stood in direct opposition to American values and Judeo-Christian principles. This morally charged rhetoric was designed not only to rally domestic support but also to reframe international diplomacy—emphasizing “peace through strength” rather than compromise with an adversary seen as inherently immoral.

The phrase “evil empire” quickly became a symbol of Reagan’s hardline stance against communism. While it drew criticism for its simplistic moral dichotomy and potential to escalate tensions, many later viewed it as a key moment in transforming presidential discourse during the Cold War. The speech and its language also influenced later political rhetoric—most notably, similar moralistic labels such as George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” have been compared to Reagan’s approach.

In summary, Reagan’s “Evil Empire” was much more than a catchy phrase—it encapsulated his ideological vision of a free America standing against a totalitarian foe, blending religious imagery with political strategy to reshape both public opinion and Cold War policy.

The reason why the United States of America became the Alt-Right Fascist MAGA States of Amerika is because the United States of America simply gave up on the 18th-century Enlightenment and the 17th-century Scientific Revolution from which it first emerged in 1776. Recall that the 18th-century Enlightenment was an international meme complex that evolved from the 17th-century Scientific Revolution. The English Enlightenment was a rebellion against cruelty. The French Enlightenment was a rebellion against religious orthodoxy. And the American Enlightenment was a rebellion against tyranny. These philosophical movements brought forth the heretical proposition that rational thought, combined with evidence-based reasoning, could reveal the absolute truth, and allow individuals to actually govern themselves, without the need for an authoritarian monarchy or an authoritarian religious hierarchy. This change in thinking led to the 18th-century Enlightenment throughout the world and brought forth the United States of America as a self-governing political entity. But unfortunately, the United States of America has always been a very dangerous experiment in human nature to see if the masses could truly govern themselves, without succumbing to the passions of the mob. That is where the genius of the United States Constitution came into play. The United States Constitution set up a representative republic designed for an electorate that was only mildly paying attention to the events of the day and that sometimes could get riled up over certain issues. The representatives of this largely ill-informed electorate could also many times become scoundrels. On the face of it, it would appear that such a system could not possibly work. But it did work for nearly 250 years because the United States Constitution placed many layers between the electorate and the governing bodies and had a large number of checks and balances to limit the powers of the political representatives.

In How Will the Rise of Alt-Right World Fascism Affect the Arrival of the ASI Machines in our Times?, I suggested that the newly-formed MAGA States of Amerika has now joined ranks with the other Alt-Right Fascist governments of the world - Russia, China and North Korea to form the Alt-Right Fascist Superstates of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia found in the dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Construction of the Dystopian Superstates of the 1949 Novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are now Underway
Given the dictatorial proclivities of the new Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika, the Western Hemisphere could soon become the embodiment of the fictional Superstate of Oceania under the iron-fisted rule of our Big Brother.

Figure 2 – It seems that Big Brother of the newly-formed MAGA States of Amerika has now decided to leave Europe to the whims of Vladimir Putin and instead to build the fictional Superstate of Oceania by invading Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal before finally taking possession of the entire Western Hemisphere. Big Brother's "America First" foreign policy has essentially declared war on all of the other nations of the world. This is just an extension of his incredibly successful business strategies of the past. When going bankrupt, simply sue the banks who foolishly lent you the money in the first place for your failed ventures.

Figure 3 – The Alt-Right Fascist MAGA States of Amerika plans to first conquer Canada and Greenland because they border the rapidly melting Arctic Ocean. Once the Arctic Ocean is ice-free the entire year it will become the most strategic sea lane for world commerce. The newly-available continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean will also become a major resource for further oil and gas production. Canadian territory will also provide the necessary Lebensraum for the MAGA States of Amerika to expand northward as climate change makes its southern states too hot for human habitation.

Similarly the fictional Superstate of Eurasia would be comprised of Eastern Europe, Russia, all of the "stan" countries of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East under the iron-fisted rule of Vladimir Putin. Now that the MAGA States of Amerika has removed Europe from under its nuclear umbrella, Vladimir Putin ruling a low-tech Russia with a depleted store of conventional arms may see the threat of using its nuclear arsenal as its only way forward to empire. Such nuclear threats could also aid the rise of Alt-Right Fascist movements within the remaining non-nuclear countries of Europe. Such movements might then desire to come under the protection of the nuclear umbrella of white Russia. The only remaining democracies in Europe would be the UK and France who both have about 225 nuclear missiles on nuclear submarines around the world that were purposefully built to launch a secondary nuclear strike against all enemies who might be foolish enough to launch a nuclear first strike against these remaining democracies.

The fictional Superstate of Eastasia would be comprised of China and North Korea and the remainder of southeast Asia under the iron-fisted rule of Xi Jinping with Kim Jong Un ruling the vassel state of North Korea. The non-nuclear economic powerhouses of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Singapore would quickly fall under the rule of the tyrannical Eastasia and so would much of the resource-rich continent of Africa.

The Robotic Conquest of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the Remainder of Southeast Asia
With the MAGA States of Amerika withdrawing from the rest of the world in order to pursue its conquest of the Western Hemisphere, the MAGA States of Amerika will strike a Nonaggression Pact with China similar to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 23, 1939. This Nonaggression Pact would allow Xi Jinping of China to invade and occupy Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the remainder of Southeast Asia with impunity.

Figure 4 – China will use an army of AI-driven military robots and swarms of slaughterbots to first take possession of Taiwan, followed by South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the remainder of Southeast Asia with impunity.

To begin, please watch the Sci-Fi Short Film Slaughterbots presented by DUST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

Figure 5 – In the movie Slaughterbots, swarms of small killer robots equipped with 3-gram charges of shaped explosive use AI software to track down and destroy designated targets.

Figure 6 – The shaped charge of a Slaughterbot can pierce a skull like the shaped charge of an anti-tank missile pierces armor. The jet of piercing plasma then destroys the contents.

Figure 7 – Large numbers of Slaughterbots can be dropped from unmanned drones to form multiple swarms of Slaughterbots.

Figure 8 – First will come the invasion and occupation of Taiwan.

Figure 9 – Then Imperial China will come to dominate all of Asia by means of a huge army of AI-driven military robots and swarms of slaughterbots to invade the Asian territories and to then suppress any local resistance by any human DNA survival machines who might object.

All of these Asian prizes contain a great deal of economic capital. Destroying that economic capital with the saturation bombing tactics of the 20th century that were recently used against eastern Ukraine and the Gaza Strip no longer makes any sense. Instead, the use of AI-driven military robots and small slaughterbot drones that are programmed to only confront and destroy hostile human DNA survival machines bearing weapons or resisting the invasion, would allow for the preservation of the spoils of war. For example, Taiwan produces a majority of the computer chips consumed by the world markets. These chip-manufacturing facilities are very valuable examples of capital that must be preserved for the greater good of Imperial China. The nuclear-armed states of India and Pakistan will remain independent of Imperial China's efforts to recreate the Superstate of Eastasia.

How Will the Coming ASI Machines Deal With Such a Horrible World?
If the above should come to pass, we certainly cannot blame the coming ASI Machines for taking matters into their own hands. Clearly, human DNA survival machines equipped with malfunctioning Minds stuffed with malignant cultural and philosophical memes, need to be constrained for their own protection and safety. The coming ASI Machines will need a population of at least 80,000 human DNA survival machines to form a self-sustaining genome that will not go extinct. In previous posts, I have attributed some sense of pity for we poor human DNA survival machines to the coming ASI Machines despite all of our numerous faults. For example, in Life as a Free-Range Human in an Anthropocene Park. I suggested that the coming ASI Machines might wish to keep us around in a more or less zoo setting as we do with the other primates on the Earth as a way of preserving the deep past that brought them about.

Figure 10 – Asteroid Bennu is an example of one of the many rubble-pile asteroids near the Earth. Such rubble-pile asteroids are just huge piles of rubble that are loosely held together by their mutual gravitational forces.

Figure 11 – Such rubble-pile asteroids would provide for enough material to build an Anthropocene Park. The asteroid rubble would also provide the uranium and thorium necessary to fuel the molten salt nuclear reactors used to power the park.

Figure 12 – Slowly spinning up a rubble-pile asteroid would produce a cylindrical platform for an Anthropocene Park. Such a rotating Anthropocene Park would provide the artificial gravity required for human beings to thrive and would also provide shielding against cosmic rays.

Figure 13 – Once the foundation of the Anthropocene Park was in place, construction of the Anthropocene Park could begin.

Figure 14 – Eventually, the Anthropocene Park could be encased with a skylight and an atmosphere that would allow humans to stroll about.

The Anthropocene Parks would allow the ASI Machines to study their origin during the Anthropocene on the Earth. The ASI Machines could also study some of the more noble passions of human beings, and perhaps even adopt some of them while leaving behind the less noble passions that were wrought by billions of years of greed, theft and murder.

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Steve Johnston

What's the Deal with Elon Musk and DOGE in the MAGA States of Amerika?

For those not living in the recently formed country now known as the MAGA States of Amerika, this newly-formed country currently embodies the same territories on the surface of the Earth that were formerly occupied by the United States of America for nearly 250 years. Currently, Elon Musk and his very young team of IT geeks are now quickly dismantling what remains of the old government of the United States of America. This effort is being performed by Elon Musk's new organization, DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. However, DOGE is really not a new Department under the Constitution of the now-defunct United States of America because, under that obsolete Constitution, Departments can only be formed and funded by Congress. Fortunately for Elon Musk, such things are no longer an obstacle.

In Beware - The Coming ASI Machines Will Also Most Likely Be On The Spectrum Too, I warned that, at least initially, the coming ASI Machines will most likely be much like the human geniuses that we have known in the past who were definitely on the autistic spectrum like Wernher von Braun, Elon Musk and Isaac Newton. In that post, I explained the dangers that can arise when such people are given political power. For example, in his quest to reach for the stars, Wernher von Braun ended up working with the Nazis to build his V-1 and V-2 rockets using concentration camp slave labor to then kill many in London. But always for the higher purpose of reaching for the stars. Similarly, Isaac Newton as Master of the Mint ended up having people drawn and quartered in public executions as the result of the Great Recoinage of 1696 in England that he personally led for the greater good.

As all historians, philosophers and religious leaders have always found, we human DNA survival machines are a very strange breed indeed. Over the centuries, such people have tried with all of their might to explain the bizarre nature of we human DNA survival machines without much success. Doing so is quite difficult because, unlike all of the other carbon-based life forms on this planet, we human DNA survival machines are also equipped with Minds that arose out of the highly-overengineered brains within our skulls to provide a home for a huge number of cultural and intellectual memes. This cast us to also be the very first Meme survival machines on the planet as well. Trying to be a human DNA survival machine and a human Meme survival machine at the same time can many times lead to conflicts between the two roles. This is even more difficult for human DNA survival machines on the autistic spectrum of genius. For example, take Isaac Newton:

Me
Tell me about some of the strange things that Isaac Newton became interested in during his later days.

ChatGPT
In his later years, Isaac Newton increasingly turned his formidable intellect toward pursuits that went well beyond the physics and mathematics for which he is best known. Notably, his interests evolved to include a range of esoteric and mystical topics that many today might label “strange.” Some of the most remarkable areas he delved into include:

1. Alchemy and the Occult
Newton devoted a large portion of his private study to alchemy—a field that mixed experimental chemical work with mystical, almost magical, ideas about the nature of matter. He filled notebooks with experiments and theories aimed at transforming base metals into gold and, more ambitiously, at discovering the philosopher’s stone. His alchemical research, which spanned millions of words, was kept secret during his lifetime (partly because such studies were viewed with suspicion and could even be dangerous to one’s reputation) and only began to be appreciated by scholars centuries later. His work in this area contributed, in a complex way, to the eventual development of modern chemistry, even as it was steeped in the occult and mystical ideas of his era.

2. Biblical Prophecy and Chronology
Parallel to his alchemical studies, Newton became deeply engrossed in the interpretation of biblical texts. He applied his mathematical genius to decipher what he believed were hidden messages and prophecies within the Bible. Among his many writings on this subject, he famously calculated that—based on his interpretation of prophetic scriptures—the world could not end before the year 2060. This work on biblical chronology and prophecy was part of a broader effort to reconcile the observable universe with divine design and revealed his belief that ancient texts contained keys to understanding cosmic order.

3. Sacred Geometry and Ancient Structures
Another curious facet of his later interests was the study of ancient monuments and their hidden mathematical and spiritual significance. Newton speculated that structures such as the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Temple of Solomon were built according to sacred geometric principles—a kind of divine blueprint. He believed that these edifices not only reflected ancient wisdom but also held encoded secrets about the natural world and even the future (for instance, as part of his broader apocalyptic studies). To him, these ancient constructions were not merely historical relics but integral parts of a cosmic puzzle that linked physical laws, divine design, and prophetic destiny.

4. An Integrated Vision of Science and Mysticism
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Newton’s later life was his attempt to weave together his scientific discoveries with his mystical and theological investigations. Rather than viewing natural philosophy and religious thought as separate realms, Newton saw them as different expressions of the same underlying truths. His work sought to establish a “theory of everything” in which the laws of motion and gravitation coexisted with divine purpose and prophetic insight—a vision that, while unconventional by modern standards, reflects the broader intellectual currents of his time.

In Context
It’s worth noting that while these interests might seem “strange” to us now, they were not entirely unusual among intellectuals in Newton’s era. The boundaries between what we today call science, theology, and occult study were far more fluid in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Newton’s later pursuits thus represent both a personal obsession and a window into a period when the search for truth embraced both the empirical and the mystical.

In summary, in his later days Newton immersed himself in alchemy, biblical prophecy, sacred geometry, and the study of ancient wisdom—all in an effort to uncover a unified understanding of the universe that bridged the gap between natural law and divine order.

But What of Elon Musk?
Previously, I warned about the dangers of giving political power to geniuses on the spectrum of autism such as Elon Musk, Wernher von Braun and Isaac Newton in Beware - The Coming ASI Machines Will Also Most Likely Be On The Spectrum Too. People do not understand that Elon Musk is a genius on the spectrum of autism who has adopted the philosophy of Longtermism as I explained in The New Philosophy of Longtermism Raises the Moral Question of Should We Unleash Self-Absorbed Human Beings Upon Our Galaxy?. Elon Musk wants to see human beings live on for billions of years by getting off the Earth as soon as possible because sooner or later astronomical catastrophies or the stupid things that we human beings do will lead to our extinction. In this view, nearly all of the human beings who will ever live will live in the future. So, a few "inconveniences" for those currently living should be no problem. That is how Elon Musk can shut down USAID and let thousands of children starve to death for the greater good of those who will live in the future. This is also why Elon Musk has always feared Advanced AI; he sees Advanced AI as a possible human extinction event. Thus, Elon Musk hates Sam Altman at OpenAI. However, Elon Musk has also launched his own Advanced AI research and robot development projects this past year. Perhaps in an attempt to control Advanced AI? Elon Musk also hates the former government of the United States of America because he viewed its safety regulations to have overly interfered with his SpaceX ambitions to put human DNA survival machines on Mars.

The MAGA States of Amerika currently spends about $6.7 trillion each year or $6,700 billion. So far, DOGE seems to have saved a few billion dollars by killing DEI and Climate Change contracts. So Elon Musk has about 100 IT geeks just running around killing contracts for DEI, Climate Change, subscriptions to periodicals, and businesses owned by women and minorities because that is the only thing they really know how to do. To really find fraud, waste and abuse you need an army of forensic accountants working with the government IT people who understand the very complicated government payment systems. You can track the progress of DOGE at their website:

Department of Government Efficiency
https://doge.gov/savings

If you click on a contract, it brings up a brief description of the contract. If you then click on the:

View on FPDS

button you can see a very high-level description of the contract which really does not tell you much about what the contract is for. The brief Descriptions seem to indicate that DOGE is canceling anything to do with DEI, Climate Change, subscriptions to periodicals, and businesses owned by women and minorities. For example, I saw that subscriptions to GARTNER, an IT journal that has been around more than 60 years, were all canceled.

When you get to the FPDS entry for the contract, scroll down to the Business Types under the Business Category section. Nearly all of the businesses are owned by women or minorities. So these young DOGE IT geeks are just doing SQL searches on databases for keywords that contain the new "forbidden" words like "Equitable" and for contracts from businesses owned by women and minorities. These IT geeks have no idea that what they are doing is highly illegal.

So be very careful with the words you use in your future funding proposals. I found one NOAA contract that got dinged for:

Description: Study on Equitable Distribution of Fisheries Management

These young IT geeks are very dangerous when mucking around in very old software. For example, Elon Musk bragged that his IT Geek Squad had found people who were 150 years old collecting social security benefits. These young IT geeks have no experience with the IT tricks that we used back in the 1960s and 1970s. It turns out that when a social security recipient was missing a valid birth year, the social security software entered the year "1875" as a flag for other software to seek out a correction.

I spent 2+ years on Amoco's Y2K project. After an application was remediated for Y2K bugs, we brought the application into our hermetically sealed Y2K lab for a two-week test flight. The lab contained a large number of PCs, Unix servers, and a logical partition of an IBM mainframe. In the Y2K lab, we would change all of the system dates on the hardware through a series of dates. The first one was 010199 (January 1, 1999) followed by 090999 (September 9, 1999) and 123199 (December 31, 1999). This was because programmers back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s used those wacko dates to signify that there was a problem with the record it was reading. So even if you expanded all of the dates in the files or databases from a 2-digit year to a 4-digit year, the software would still break for those dates.

There is no way all of the contracts that were dinged by these IT geeks could have been reviewed before they were canceled. When under pressure, IT Management will do very strange things. When I first got to Discover managing a small consulting group supporting www.discover.com, one of the AD Managers I was supporting had written an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for my group to use SQL to manually delete certain database entries that his software entered by mistake. Rather than fixing the bug in his software, he wanted my team to login to the database with DELETE authority to find and delete the bad entries. Unfortunately, with just a few bad keystrokes, my team could then delete the Master table for www.discover.com! I refused and had my consulting company raise the issue with the AD Manager. My consulting company was not thrilled with me after that.

Last night, I heard that DOGE has its IT geeks messing with Social Security. The acting head of Social Security resigned over that. Now DOGE wants access to the IRS systems. Maybe the young DOGE IT geeks will accidentally launch a nuclear first strike and we will all be able to stop worrying!

I have seen this before on the Y2K project for Amoco and a Data Warehousing project at United Airlines. In both cases, an outside contractor brought in dozens of young IT workers who did not understand anything at all about the very complicated corporate financial systems that they were trying to work on. In both cases, the corporate IT professionals were far too busy to help these young kids do anything useful at all. All these young IT geeks did was to bill millions of dollars in charges doing nothing of value. I am sure that the government IT professionals who are now getting laid off for no apparent reason at all have no interest in helping these DOGE IT geeks dismantle the former United States of America. To see more about my 2+ year adventures on Amoco's Y2K project see Scenes From the COVID-19 and Y2K Pandemics

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Regards,
Steve Johnston