Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Bret Weinstein: Likelihood of Lab Leak is 95% | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

  1. "Autonomous weapons systems" It still blows me away that the original Transformers, way back in 1984, put the Autobots (autonomous cars) as the good guys and the Decepticons (drone warplanes) as the bad guys. Autonomous cars are perhaps the first AIs that have to be trained to recognize human beings, and preserve their lives. Drone warplane AIs, not so much.
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  2. The CCP thought they were the hero when they imposed forced abortions to control China's population. And when they put Uyghurs in concentration camps, sterilizing them, again to control population. Could such people think of themselves as heroes, if they rebalanced China's aging demographics with a virus that preferentially attacks the old?
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  3.  @Jabranalibabry  I'm still waiting for the Transformers reboot that goes into the "childhood" of Optimus Prime. He is developed as an automated truck AI, but to truly understand human behavior, during his training his inventor puts him in the android body that approximates that of a child -- not particularly strong, and vulnerable to damage in the same way human children are. He is raised with the inventors' sons, going on walks around town with them, playing computer games with them, wrestling with them, all to get him familiar with human body language, human frailties, and the like. All this, so that when his programming tells him "This is a human. They can get hurt, make it a priority to keep them from getting hurt" he has a baseline for making those judgements. And, since this is a Transformers movie, it's also about how the AIs take over the world, and the last of the humans escape to another planet that turn out to be Earth, where they destroy all their technology because they're so terrified of the AIs killing them all.
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  4.  @christianjforbes  Yeah. "Oh". This may be why the CCP is desperately trying to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons it doesn't have, to prevent an investigation. In fact, that threat is circumstantial evidence that this theory could be correct. "Oh what tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive". What the CCP doesn't seem to realize, is that without the respect for human rights (which comes ultimately from Christian ethics), the rest of the world can't trust them, and will suspect them of really hideous things because too often we'll be right. Honestly, credit to them for trying to make provision for their countrymen. Good for them. And honestly, good for them, for not wanting to see China prostrated like it was during the 19th century. Prosperity is good, and being able to stick up for yourself is good too. Everyone in the world should have that capacity, and not at anyone else's expense. However, some ways of making this happen are more evil than others. I'm a firm believer in "all get richer, some get richest", as the best mix of idealism and practicality we can reach in this world. What the CCP seems to be doing here is, "Most of us get richer, some of us get very very rich indeed, foreigners get poorer, and some of us and some foreigners get dead." This is not the best we can do in this world. This is something that people outside of China have every reason to work to stop.
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  5. The next most likely explanation (after accident) is the CCP releasing it on their own population to rebalance their demographics, so China doesn't "grow old before it grows rich".
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