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Why the Future Does Need Correctional Officers

THE INTELLIGENT MACHINE MOLECULAR LEVEL CHALLENGE

First of all, let us assume that technology today will be successful in developing intelligent machines that can do most things better than human beings can do them and run with that concept. In this general assumption, there is no doubt that much of prison management will be done by highly sophisticated infra-structures or systems of machines with minimal human effort. In theory, some of these machines will be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight and others will require some kind of human control over the machines retained or designed to perform certain tasks, duties and responsibilities.

Naturally, if the intelligent machine is permitted to make all their own decisions, it us much too early to make any guesses or conjectures how that would impact running a prison as it is too early to predict such results. We can, however, point out that it will be humans depended on machines how things turn out with or without human intervention. How we turn over such power to the machines and relieve humans of such tasks voluntarily will depend on how efficient machines can do the job as a correctional officer.

In some cases, I can predict the machines will work themselves into ‘drift’ positions as not all tasks are compatible with machine made decisions. Hence we are developing a conflict between machine made decisions and those of man-made origins. At what stage of this process do we allow machines to effectively take control and power from the humans and simultaneously provide the necessary decisions and actions to assure making good decisions.

At what level or stage will the machines will be in effective control. Management principles writing the rules on such decision-making won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because turning them off would amount to suicide of their designed capabilities and cause a systems failure in whatever area they are poised to perform. How effective machines become will determine the ratio of men versus machine development and deployment factors. It is suspect that in due time, due to improved techniques the choice of using machines, will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be unessential rather than essential and become a useless burden on the system.

Machines as shepherds, guardians or controllers over the prison populations would please those who want prisons to be punitive, rigid, harsh and toxic without deviation or alternatives for human incapacities or disabilities. It would be near impossible to satisfy under most humanoid psychologically hygienic conditions. These machines would have to be designed to have or possess a wide-range of biologically or psychologically engineered abilities. If this was done successfully, human would be reduced to the status of domestic animals rather than intelligent useful and purposeful individuals.

Thus it becomes important to evaluate how these intelligent machines make decisions and what draws this capacity into a resolution when faced with problems with other humans, not machines. Any wrongful inputs or programming would result in unintended consequences, consequences that could be cold, and criminally susceptible in actions or deeds.

The industry would serve public safety better if they are compelled to address and confront this matter before such machines are installed to replace correctional officers. Contrary to common myths and beliefs, prison systems involving the business of managing people is very complex and involves various interactions that are often, difficult to predict, even for humans. A machine would react on the highest probability rate or assessment rather than take into account any exceptions.

Today, our most powerful technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make human correctional officers, an endangered species. The one factor we need to keep in mind is that machines do not have the capacity to be conscious. Certainly, the way technology is rapidly growing, and with the current rate of improvements, we will accelerate the relationship between human prisoners and robotic machines overseeing prison operations and programs. Without a doubt, there will be implementations of robots fused or joined with humans to create a workforce inside prisons.

How well this partnership uses these powers to reshape the prison world should be based on realistic and imminent scenarios to give them a high predictability of making the right decisions most of the time. however, morally and legally, these wouldn’t be ordinary predictions. They would have to calculate every factor of a situational assessment that surpasses any schematic or blueprint of human behaviors.

The more information there is gathered, the more the uneasiness is intensified with relative serious consequences and dangers. One could guess there is a high probability of a bad outcome in such encounters. Taking the fact that prisons do experience various ‘out of control’ situations, it is a grave concern how such machines would act with it comes to terms with threats or dangers different from what they are programmed for. In some cases, machines could in fact, escalate the dangers by exercising their own ‘out of control’ measures to offset the prison situation. This creates a pure antagonistic situation that would be hard to resolve without first inflicting serious harm to people or structures designed to provide public safety and secure environments. In some cases, the machines would have to be simply shut down to avoid escalating the problems or increasing the matter at hand to a greater risk.

A machine does not possess a conscious. Therefore, it has no fear, no sense of mortality and no ability to compromise. It just does whatever it is programmed to do; it could become more powerful and more aggressive in behavior that could pose an enormous threat to the entire environment. For machines to match our molecular level consciousness, it would need to consider structures of relevance in the environment, relationships and other core values that encompass the social, physical, intellectual, spiritual, sexual and material aspects of the human mind. in humans.

These core values are deeply engrained, and engender a great amount of sub-actions for decision making capabilities. Without proper guidance of these deliberate programed intentions, we have not only intelligent machines to operate and take care of our prison population but we also have innumerous amounts of robots that contain the knowledge-enabled mass-destruction (KMD) capacity simply amplified by the number of robots assigned to do the job on every shift.

Building or Preserving your Reputation

Building or Preserving your Reputation

 

Hypocrisy is at its highest today and it’s not going away. Everything you say or do has the potential of ending up being posted on the web. Who we are is what others hear or see. To some extent, you need to be sure your image, character and reputation remain intact and display or show a visible character trait you are comfortable with while suppressing any negative images of your character or brand. Remember today, your agency human resources might be tracking your conduct online.

This requires you to be aware of your name or images on the web through careful monitoring of all searches on the internet. Be careful on releasing personal or financial information. Don’t let search engines betray your efforts to preserve your character or reputation on line as well as in the social circles you are engaged in. Although technology has made it nearly impossible to hide on the internet, how you are perceived is controlled by your own actions and posting regular positive content rather than the negativity that thrives on controversies or character assassinations.

Keeping your private information away from others to see is entirely up to how you surf and use the web. What you publish, increases your visibility so the more you post, the more people get to know you and your values. Keep this under control if you want to remain semi-private in your personal life and not interfere with your workwise related events. The best advice to give is to not post anything on social media, but as it stands today, this form of media influences many decisions how we act or think in public or otherwise. How you act in private is defined by your activities online.

To begin this process, you need to assess or evaluate your current reputation or image online or in searches using your full name, address and other key phrases that associate or link you to other sites. Once you have assessed your current online reputation and have a firm strategy in place, you can easily take control and manage the way you are seen on the internet.

The best method to get rid of the negatives is to delete whenever possible but remember, deleting information does not guarantee it from disappearing somewhere else as a matter of record. Regardless, by dominating or controlling your search results, you may keep the positive information and delete whatever you might have posted that can harm your reputation, embarrass you or cause negative effects in your life.

The next step is to identify significant changes needed in your image, or other things that may identify you negatively. Decide to narrow down your social interactions and choose your best areas already on the web and work on improving them. Don’t spread yourself out so wide, you can’t control the data or information anymore. This is a good time to identify places where your preferred target group hangs out as this maximizes your character and the reputation you want to show online.

Focus on creating that positive image; create a positive reputation strategy that crafts the image you want. Decide, what type of content, whether words or graphic, will serve you best. Keep this strategy going to form a perpetual opinion or image of your character or reputation. The more you influence these search machines with positive data, the better you look and get credit for being who you say you are. Never relent your control to others; don’t give accounts to friends or family who may post on your behalf or publish something that you would never approve of if you knew about it.

As you create the content that will influence your reputation, continue to monitor search results online. Track your progress and keep tabs on all mentions of your name and key phrases so that you can quickly respond to anything negative. In order to avoid the hypocrisy, keep your content consistent and positive as it will act as your agent to build or preserve your reputation.

The Zest of Water

The Zest of Water

The Lust for Water does not resist temptation

A human’s lust for thirst is never a sin

The feel of water is often soft as it falls out of the sky

As it was never meant to harm you

The strength of water is bound by laws of nature

To give you what you truly desire inside your soul

Because it is true to nature and all its power

It can shift your moods from rapid thinking to a chilling slow

Water always returns back to its true form or shape

It is granting your lust for life, and is endlessly changing

It can find you love, grief or sorrow or joy

For it does not lack the desire to please or disappoint you

The zest of water brings endless passionate desires

It fulfills an endless life of enrichment to soothe your soul

Whether you are letting it go, or bringing it close to you

It is always constantly changing by letting it flow

Water can bring you enrichments of life or cause a sudden death

It does not cling to either without a special purpose

It finds its own level and essence in life as far as we know

By forever and never letting things go without a reason

So do not cling to water for too long as it may drown you

Even though its ecstasy is eternally giving

Like the sun, the heavens and moon above

It permeates all living things around us light or night

And when things eventually die, the water remains

It teaches us reason and purposes under the stars of heaven

It reasons with us that all things that are born shall die

Yet, when it is all said and done, it is never really over

Water is here for us, fulfilling our ego

As it fills our body and soul with vibrations and ripples for living

Perspective - popular or unpopular?

Perspective – is Being Unpopular a Bad thing?

 

Being anti-establishment or being recognized or tagged as a person who is going against the flow, has serious consequences especially if you are looking to be socially acceptable in a politically correct circle. These unkind, brutal and vitriol attacks are relentlessly hurled to demean your position, ideas or opinions. However, there must be something legitimate to this kind of assault on your character that is worth examining.

Being loathed, hated or despised by others has some backdrafts but it perfectly validates how people act when you do not agree with them in ideology or agenda making it more difficult for you to be heard or seen as a credible source to provide further information. The fact these people work so hard to hate you is an indicator that there must be something legitimate about you.

In reality there is no enigma as to why you would be hated so much. When you are attacked personally it demonstrates there is a worry or concern attached to what you have to say. What is important is to judge for yourself whether this is a good thing or bad thing and adjust accordingly.

Now ask yourself this question: what is it about my professed and unjustified harangue, values or criticism that worries them so much?  Where is the morality in this conflict and are your ideas worthy of standing up for or is there room for a compromise? Will a compromise misalign your own values and morality and is the price paid worth such a conciliation?

Is it worth a belligerent fight and defend your ideas as a whole or can you position align with theirs without losing your core values or do you do what it takes to advance your own ideas to serve the cause?

Is it possible for you to remain intellectually positive and contributing to the cause as long as you don’t surrender your core values and not alter the outcome of your position? Do you have enough leverage and legitimate tools to persuade against harmful actions or harmful practices against your cause?

If your goal is to be respected, considered smart and informed, serious and productive, you have to make sure you have the leverage to have your plan or position heard and considered for action in a meaningful way. Modern-day people, influenced by social media, corporate greed and selfish motives, are not willing to compromise on anything.

Good versus Bad people - who suffer the most and why?

Why “Bad People” make Good People Suffer?

 

Ever had that feeling why bad people seem to have good things happen to them and the good, like yourself, appear to be suffering more than others. A difficult question to answer but I am guessing there are some specific dynamics attached to such cases. One has to first believe that bad people don’t suffer as much as good people. In my opinion, that would be hard to prove.

We all know when bad things happen, we feel that fate has betrayed us when in fact, we are trying to do what is good. This often results in a disproportionate feeling of despair and stress. We tend to feel that the bad persons have been spared the cruelty we suffer. The first thing we have to do is stop the comparison. It serves no purpose to bicker or argue about it. We don’t always have all the facts of the situation to worry about it.

We are often so wrapped up in our own torment we never see the other side and this disconnect hides what we believe is the suffering of self but not others. We should learn to accept the fact that all people, regardless good or evil, have their own share of troubles. Since it is natural to feel the need to know that we are better off than the others, it still doesn’t make it any more sensible to worry about it.

So comparing suffering is senseless or useless as we have to determine what it is that makes it easier for bad people to cope with adversity or bad things happening to you or them. Just because you think they don’t suffer, it doesn’t make life easier as we tend to generalize things to the point we try to cover all experiences under one umbrella. Thinking bad people have a lack of conscience is one way to see it, however, that may be untrue in some cases.

In my own opinion, even if I perceive someone to be evil that doesn’t mean they don’t experience or feel emotional pain or the sting of failure like I do. Simply put, they may choose to remain quiet about it or refuse to discuss it in public. This brings up attitude and how we handle adversity. Some of us think they (bad people) have it easier because they don’t suffer the emotional cost we do. In other words, they downplay the impact or deny it even exists.

It may be their strengths to deal with adversity is stronger than yours and gives others the impression they don’t care and pretend not to be set back or offended by the negativity and move on with their lives. I know it’s cliché but even bad people suffer – whether you see or feel it or not, we don’t know the full impact.

They may not wear their emotions on their sleeve and not show grief or suffering. Some spare an embarrassment if they display what they believe is a weakness in character and this itself causes misunderstandings. Their reactions may be cold and unemotional compared to the good person who shows they feel the crushing pain, tears in their eyes and trembling knees or lips showing a lot of emotion. Who is to tell, which one is more genuine or sincere? The answer can only be known to their inner self.

Thus whether we are good or evil, we all share commonalities but choose to show it differently in public or in life. We all suffer, and we all experience regrets. We move on in some cases, and we stall in the past on other predicaments. We must recognize we deal with grief differently. Some show a rather masochistically behavior and others appear cold and numb showing no anguish or suffering on the outside. The key root is regret and how you deal with it. If you can accept the loss or discontent without excessive emotion, the chances of moving on are greater than those who stall in the past.

Realize that life is not easy. There will be pain and sorrow. There will be dents in your armor, scars on your skin or inside your head but wear them with knowing the fact that you had the courage to keep moving and avoid any further suffering. Life offers you more than you realize if you just get away from self-pity and find the beauty of living.