Automated tractors, noble riots

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, now open your eyes, and exhale. Close your eyes again. Take another deep breath, open your eyes again and exhale again. Repeat this process, but now do so with this idea in your head. 'Automated tractors'. Think, what is a tractor? It's a horse substitute, that's what it is. Tractors were designed to replace horses. They are, for the most part, designed to pull something across a field, a job which was the preserve of the blessed horse, the noble horse. A very quick aside here, but I am quite scared of horses, they are massive beasts and there is a reason why the police use them when it comes to riots. The noble, blessed, massive riot horse, which for the most part, that has been replaced, and is now mostly used for recreation and meat in French supermarkets, let's be honest about this, at least, let's just tell the truth about the current situation of the old horse.

Mr LMAO

Now, repeat the breathing process in the first paragraph, but think, this time, about the human being aspect of the tractor. What might happen to the tractor driver going forward in this 'great race to replace?' The tractor replaces the horse, of course, but the human still needed to guide the horse. The human still needed to guide the tractor. But now, with 'automated tractors' we have replaced the human. We have, essentially, made the human as redundant as the horse, perhaps, even, more so, as you can't ride humans or farm them for meat as far as I know (leave it). Now, think, where else can we replace the human? In my short working lifespan, I have replaced human activity with automation, that is to say, the work done by a human was replaced by a macro in a spreadsheet, the operation once done by the noble, blessed massive riot human, was automated. That was not even hard to do, because I did it. I'm serious, this happened, it actually happened I am very sorry

Automation, yesterday

Now, close your eyes and think, what do I want in a whisky? How much human interaction am I looking for? At every single stage in the whisky process, from farming the barley, the tractor, to milling, to mashing, to distilling, to cooling things down, steps have been automated to some extent, that is to say, some human element has been removed, and rightly so. We don't want someone with a shovel to have to turn the barley, we don't want someone to sit and watch a spirit safe, we don't want someone to blow on the pipes to cool things down. All of that is boring, exhausting work. We want technology. We want automation. No-one would really argue against automated tractors, removing the human to do something else instead. Something more noble, something more 'higher level' (like rioting). Free the human, I say! But, I ask you, where will this end? In fact, it will never end, because I have seen it, I have seen the future, and it's automated. It's better. You can argue, well, humans will still need to 'oversee' but that itself will be automated, in fact, if you look at most processes, you will see that to be the case quite often. And it will never end. The future is, in part already here, the future is automated. And there might be riots.

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So I ask you, to think again, when will we have the first ever, complete, AI whisky? A whisky that has literally no human interaction at all? The answer, is 2035, and you can mark my words on that. That's 2030 for AI to surpass human intelligence, so then, let's say 2030, and then 2 years for us to stop freaking out about it, and then 3 years AND A FEW DAYS LMAO to produce the whisky, the few days, of course, is the distillation and bottling and so on, and indeed, so forth.

Well, no doubt we will see something called AI whisky before then, I would imagine, in fact we already have something, a whisky with a (I guess mashbill/cask combo) generated with AI, but I am not talking about that, I am talking about a whisky with no human interaction in it at all. Perhaps we will never see that, but perhaps we will, a distillery with all of its parts automated, and then the mashbill/cask combo designed by AI, then the label, and even the marketing. I need to think about this, but if you have read this far, I hope I have 'made you think' and perhaps even 'generated discussion'

Also, I've noticed that my blogs are more popular when I swear in them. I shall not being doing that in this blog, because there is no need for it at all, and in fact, I might never swear again as long as I live.

This blog was inspired by a part in a documentary series called Bad Sport where someone was killing horses by electrocuting them though their anuses and the owners were then collecting the insurance money :(