{"id":29156,"date":"2026-10-28T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=29156"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:34:31","slug":"more-evenly-distributed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/10\/28\/more-evenly-distributed\/","title":{"rendered":"More Evenly Distributed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>More of those videos about evolution and homosexuality;<\/li>\n<li>Paul Krugman invokes William Gibson in his concerns about AI;<\/li>\n<li>Brief items about Orwellian tactics, short-term selfish thinking, and the arrogance of the religious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>That video I posted yesterday about homosexuality turns out to be last in a series, from a Facebook newsgroup called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AD1Explains\">AD1 Explains<\/a>, described only as a &#8220;Digital Creator.&#8221; If you go look at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AD1Explains\/owner_reels\">reels<\/a> you can scroll down and see many on various topics, including this one.<\/p>\n<p>I think I thought I was posting the first in this series yesterday, when somehow I posted the last in the series instead. Here&#8217;s the first, I hope. (The embed function isn&#8217;t working. Copy this link into a new browser window.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1151334827418770<\/p>\n<p>The gist is that ordinary natural selection would, many think, weed out any genes that don&#8217;t lead to reproduction. If homosexuals don&#8217;t reproduce (though of course some of them always have, by getting married anyway, or these days, through IVF), then how could it be genetically determined, in any way? I haven&#8217;t listened to the full series of videos, but what it boils down to, it seems to be, is an example of &#8216;group selection,&#8217; an idea pushed by E.O. Wilson and others that nevertheless remains slightly controversial today. Anything attributed to group selection can be explained by individual selection, the critics say. Well, maybe. But except, as these videos seem to explain, for things like homosexuality, where the side-effects of same-sex attraction actually benefit a small population, the family or the community, even if those individuals don&#8217;t reproduce themselves. Instead they spend their resources supporting the family or community. The gay uncles, and so on. (Though I can&#8217;t hold myself up as a prime example. But my own uncle was.)<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Paul Krugman invokes William Gibson. Though only as an emblem.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!F2xH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa486b889-1f0a-4eef-8cc2-f53f1972cbb9_824x1196.png\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Krugman, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/hack-apocalypse-now\">Hack Apocalypse Now<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The dark side of AI is already here&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like everyone who has been paying attention, I have worries about the possible negative effects from AI. And it\u2019s a long laundry list of worries. One, there is the technology\u2019s anti-labor bias, which may accelerate our downward spiral into oligarchy. Next, there is the fact that the data center boom is <a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/will-ai-crowd-out-jobs\">crowding out investment<\/a> in almost everything else, yet data centers employ hardly any workers. Third, I\u2019m worried about the high probability that AI looks like a bubble, particularly given the sheer size of the AI boom. If it is indeed a bubble, it will inevitably burst and will probably plunge the U.S. economy back into a <a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-crisis-next-time\">liquidity trap<\/a> due to its size.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Anthropic tells me that AI may well wipe out the human race, which is why I should invest in the company\u2019s IPO.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess I haven\u2019t been talking enough to the technologists, because I wasn\u2019t aware until last week of the strong possibility that AI will render the internet as we know it unusable \u2014 not at some point in the distant future, but in a matter of months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then describes the recent PHP issue, in which AI discovered a vulnerability with that computer language that had not previously been seen. At the same time, Krugman fears, AI can be skilled at exploiting such vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what are we going to do? I don\u2019t <em>think<\/em> we\u2019ll be going back to carbon paper and filing cabinets. For the most part we probably won\u2019t even have to rely on air-gapped local networks that are fully cut off from the internet. Azhar thinks that we\u2019ll move instead to a system of partially closed domains, like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closed_platform\">AOL in its early years<\/a> or the SABRE system used by travel agents, which are difficult but not impossible for people and institutions outside those domains to access.<\/p>\n<p>Such closed domains are often called \u201cwalled gardens,\u201d but I\u2019d suggest that a better analogy is \u201cgated communities,\u201d like the one my late parents lived in toward the end of their lives. People who didn\u2019t live in their community <em>could<\/em> visit them, but only if my parents had provided their names to the staff manning the gate. It worked \u2014 they could invite friends from outside over \u2014 but it was annoying and time-consuming compared with life outside the gates, where everyone could come and go freely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could we go back? Possibly. I&#8217;m reminded yet again of William Gibson&#8217;s quote (to keep the tie) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/681-the-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-evenly\">\u201cThe future is already here \u2013 it&#8217;s just not evenly distributed\u201d<\/a>. That&#8217;s true is some senses, but perhaps not in many senses that most of us (and certainly not MAGA) realizes.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>From the populist fringe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Trump2026scowl-651x330.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re pretty sure they&#8217;ve never read George Orwell&#8217;s <b>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/b>, but Orwell was prescient to see how these tactics are used again and again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>JMG, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/10\/trump-we-will-officially-ban-using-the-term-ai\/\">Trump: \u201cWe Will Officially Ban Using The Term AI\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>He thinks he can do that, does he?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Salon, Allan J. Lichtman, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/10\/28\/the-first-line-of-donald-trumps-obituary\/\">The first line of Donald Trump\u2019s obituary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Subtitled: &#8220;The president&#8217;s signature accomplishment is undermining faith in elections&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;He has done more than any American in history to convince his fellow citizens that their votes are not counted honestly. That dubious achievement belongs in the first line of his obituary.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Do Trump and MAGA not realize that by challenging the integrity of American elections, they are tacitly acknowledging that America is not a perfect nation, not the bestest nation in the entire world? It&#8217;s easy to speculate what they would say.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Short-term, selfish thinking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NPR, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/10\/28\/g-s1-150299\/trump-methane-restrictions\">Trump says he&#8217;s ending restrictions on climate-warming methane from oil drilling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Via <strong>JMG<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/10\/trump-im-terminating-rules-on-methane-emissions\/\">Trump: I\u2019m \u201cTerminating\u201d Rules On Methane Emissions<\/a>. &#8220;And the cult roared in approval&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Right Wing Watch, Kyle Mantyla, yesterday 27 Oct<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplefor.org\/rightwingwatch\/mike-johnson-says-christians-must-vote-gop-make-sure-righteous-are-ruling\">Mike Johnson Says Christians Must Vote For The GOP To &#8216;Make Sure That The Righteous Are Ruling&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The dangerous arrogance of the religious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Music tonight: Ewig, ewig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of those videos about evolution and homosexuality; Paul Krugman invokes William Gibson in his concerns about AI; Brief items about Orwellian tactics, short-term selfish thinking, and the arrogance of the religious. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; That video I posted yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/10\/28\/more-evenly-distributed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-religion","category-the-gays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29160,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29156\/revisions\/29160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}