“TRUST ME, I’M A SCIENTIST; TRUST ME, I’M AN ...

Well, settle in folks, because... well, because most of you sent in all sorts of intriguing and provocative articles on lots of stuff this week; so where the Gizars go, I go.  And first up is this particular story, an article which starts us off with not only a whale of a story but also the person who shared it, K.M., also offered a very intriguing observation about where the behavior being exhibited with respect to it might be going, and where it might be going is not good. Think of that "destination" as a sort of marriage between transhumanism, GMOs, and... well, you'll see. Here's the story K.M. shared, with our thanks:

While the headline here is clear enough, the devil is, as always, in the details, and in this case, it's a particular kind of devil that K.M., and I have to say I agree with the speculative implication the email shared, which I'll share in a moment. So here's the devilish details:

A 67-year-old farmer learned that lesson in probably the most expensive way possible. It all started when he turned to an AI chatbot for help dealing with weeds and pests in his sesame fields.

The irony is that he apparently wasn’t even some big fan of AI to begin with.

He had been suspicious of the technology… but after the chatbot helped him with something else and seemed to know what it was talking about, he started trusting it.

And that’s where things go terribly wrong.

That newfound trust lasted right up until he mixed together a suggested “safe” chemical concoction, sprayed it all over his fields, went to bed, and woke up to roughly 25 acres of dead sesame.

Yikes. So how did this whole mess go down?

The farmer asked AI for a weed-killing solution, and the chatbot gave him what sounded like a very specific chemical brew.

However, there was one big problem: one of those chemicals could also wipe out the very crop he was trying to protect.

The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use “high-efficiency flupyrimethalin” and “flusulfasulfaether” (flufenacet) to kill weeds and mix it with “thiamethoxazine” and “methyl salt.” As reported by Taiwanese Chinese-language news website CTWANT (via Tom’s Hardware), he followed the instructions blindly, failing to check that what he was doing was safe.

It wasn’t until the next morning that the farmer realized he shouldn’t have been so hasty. Around 24.7 acres of his sesame seedlings were dead.

The presumably upset farmer returned to the AI to ask why this had happened. The reason, apparently, was the use of “flusulfasulfaether.” The herbicide is mainly used to kill broadleaf weeds in soybean fields, but as sesame is classified as a broadleaf plant, it’s affected by the chemical.

The AI also confirmed that “flusulfasulfaether” is supposed to be sprayed directly onto affected areas only, rather than spreading it across an entire field, which is how the farmer applied it, unfortunately.

Now, if that sounds a little like people trusting the science because Dr. Fausti said all the covid planscamdemic potions and injections were entirely safe, even though they could not provide any inter-generational testing, or in some cases Big Potions refused to share the ingredients of their potions, or because the mRNA therapies were entirely new, and in spite of alternatives being available, and because of the emergency suspension of trials, and because of the pressure to take the potion or lose your job, or get deplatformed, or even though all the emerging reports of truly bizarre side-effects like turbo cancers or rubber blood clots or mad cow disease were quietly overlooked as kooky conspiracy theories - don't report any of it or we'll deplatform you - if it sounds a little bit like people trusting The Science of Dr. Fausti which had to revise dictionary definitions of the word "vaccine" in order to acommodate the potions in their cauldrons, it is. There were of course a few - this author among them - who refused to allow a basically untested potion to be injected into our bodies, our bodies our choice... let alone the "boosters".

But in the case of this farmer, apparently he did not do his homework. That's the implication conveyed by the cited second, and more technical, article. But that idea, however, puts all those trusting people who accepted the explanations of "Dr. Science" and his side-kick, "Dr. Brix" or "Kix" or whatever-her-name-was, that everything was completely safe and it was all genetics and there was nothing to worry about. To take such a view is to miss the important middle step: the A.I. had established "trustworthiness" in the farmer's mind.  One might dispute his judgment (I certainly would), but nonetheless, trustworthiness was established... until it wasn't. We're back to the planscamdemic, and to what K.M. suggested in the email that accompanied the article:

Is this all a well-thought out scenario to do nothing but establish a new kind of Fascism, one that simply "follows the science" and its "orders" because an A.I. said it would all work? In this case, the pattern is not only establishing trust, but the claim that the A.I. is so much smarter and more capable than the human. "We were simply following the scenario/plan/orders of the artificial intelligence... we're so sorry we wiped out your crops in an avalanche of sewage/plague of locusts/invasion of army worms (fill in with your favorite catastrophe). In short, we're conditioned by technology to view it all as progress, and the "answers" it provides uncritically.

And the first ones to hide behind artificial intelligence will be the technicians, technocrats, and politicians who foisted it all on us.

So do I think K.M.'s scenario is possible? I not only think it's possible, but already here... just imagine if The Science had assured us, during the planscamdemic, that A.I.s were said that the quackcine potion injections were all entirely safe.  Then The Science wouldn't have to be invoking the fifth amendment so much or even once. All that would be needed would be to say "but the A.I. models assured us..."  We were just following orders = we were just following the models = we were just following the science.  Technofascism. False witness. Deception. Idolatry.

See you on the flip side...

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