At Breakneck Speed

 

The speed of change since January 20, inauguration day, has been mind-blowing. I expected a lot. But this has exceeded my imagination. There is way too much to write about it all. A few people have summarized, such as list of DOGE discoveries, which is important, but just a part of what’s happening in our nation:

from a post shared on Facebook

 

 

As I was writing on Thursday, Kash Patel was approved as the new head of the FBI. If predictions are accurate, we should see the Jeffrey Epstein list within a day—not necessarily a list of the guilty, but certainly a list worth questioning and hopefully leading to some prosecutions. [As I continue to write on Friday, the Epstein files and the JFK files are on the desk of AG Pam Bondi, where investigations and prosecutions could bring some wrongdoers to justice. I have not yet pursued that news.] And we should see a quick weeding out of corrupt obstructionists and weaponizers. No more SWAT raids at non-dangerous family homes for the purpose of intimidation. Patel thinks there’s enough underlying good among the field investigators to make the FBI worth keeping. So we’ll see. If anyone can do it, he is the one.

I’m thinking of Revelation 18, the chapter where Babylon falls. Babylon is symbolic for the wicked worldwide cabal—the sea beast of chapter 13, controlled by the dragon Satan. Things happen quickly.

In verse 8: “her plagues come in one day…”

In verse 10: “Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is they judgment come.”

In verse 17: “For in one hour so great riches is come to nought.”

In verse 19: “for in one hour is she made desolate.”

I don’t know whether we’re seeing this actual fulfillment, or something that brings to mind this prophecy. But it’s happening fast.

I’ve been speculating since last summer that the 42 months of the beast’s reign ended (toward the bottom of the linked post), and after that we see the beginning of the downfall. And of course we see the cornered beast’s lashing out in fury and frustration. That’s happening. But the “land beast,” the propaganda that upheld and empowered the sea beast is fizzling out. MSM ratings drop is evidence.

I don’t know what “one hour” means in the context of this verse—a literal hour, some limited short time, something else? But the quickness we’re seeing seems to me to qualify.

Besides wickedness being broadcast from the rooftops, and movement away from corruption and toward restoration of our Constitution, there are a lot of things happening I don’t know how to digest yet.

One of these, also speed related, was Wednesday’s announcement by Microsoft that they have discovered a new state of property (beyond solid, liquid, or gas), and it makes immensely powerful computer chips a possibility in months and short years, rather than decades from now. This is the Tweet:

“A couple of reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced. Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today that has all changed. After nearly a 20-year pursuit, we've created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials: topological conductors.”

Here are three places to learn about it:

·        Microsoft’s announcement video. “Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits” This is the official announcement. It’s got good graphics, but I didn’t fully understand it.

·        Microsoft’s interview to Bloomberg Technology explaining it. “Microsoft Unveils First Quantum Computing Chip” This is a conversation, with a Microsoft representative who’s pretty good at explaining, and adding info about expectations for its use. I still didn’t fully understand it, but I think this is the one Glenn Beck refers to.

·        Glenn Beck responds the next day. “Microsoft Just Announced a NEW State of Matter?! | The Glenn Beck Program | Hour One2/19/25” 

So, there is a fourth state of matter—topological. And it apparently is also, or coincides with, the discovery of a new molecule, Majorana (pronounced My-yor-ah-na, named after a scientist of a century ago who theorized of its existence). That I understand; a molecule is an arrangement of atoms. For example, a water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. I don’t know the formula for this new molecule. But the scientists are excited about it. It was discovered a year ago; now it is usable.

None of the explanations helps me see a fourth state of matter. Breaking down the word parts, “topo” means “place” in Greek. “Logo” means “due to,” according to Google Translate, but I think it is closer to “word” or “meaning” or “study.” So the new state of matter is something to do with connecting place or location to meaning, or to study a location.

Eventually I just went to look up topology, because it’s not a brand new word invented this week:

Topology (from the Greek words τόπος, 'place, location', and λόγος, 'study') is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.

It sounds to me like origami. Anyway, Glenn Beck used an analogy of a friendship bracelet. You can twist it, shape it into a figure eight, move it around, but the individual threads don’t get confused with one another. The new discovery, the topological conductor molecule, is like a “jelly” inside the bracelet, that can move and morph.

I don’t understand the part about it being not solid, liquid, or gas. A friendship bracelet is a flexible solid object. But what do I know?

Anyway, the important part is how it is going to be used. For simplicity, I’ll stick with Glenn Beck’s description:

That molecule now is being used like a qubit. A qubit is a way to process a quantum computer. It takes us from linear computing: “1 + 1 = 0: wrong” “1 + 1 = 1: wrong” “1 + 1 = 2: correct.” Instead, in the same time that it took me just to say “1 + 1 equals 0: wrong,” all 1+ 1 questions are asked and answered at exactly the same time, and only one comes back right….

Now they don't have this yet, but what they announced is they can take this molecule, like, if you could think of it, finding this molecule and taking really teeny tweezers and picking it up and putting it onto this chip one at a time, they can put millions of these molecules onto this chip. Millions of molecules will be way past the computation powers of the world's best supercomputer. If the cloud—all of the servers all hooked together were in a warehouse the size of planet Earth, okay? That's what they announced yesterday.

And again, they're only at eight cubits. But they say, if this works, they say they can be at millions of cubits in a pretty short period of time. Everything changed yesterday. Everything changed yesterday.

Qubit illustration from Microsoft announcement video

Most of the rest of Glenn Beck’s hour was a conversation he had with GROK 3, the latest AI, which apparently eclipses ChatGPT, and also the Chinese AI that had the markets go crazy a week or so ago. He started by asking how this is going to affect the growth of AI. He tried to have GROK give an estimated age so a human could grasp the growth difference in the 12 hours since Glenn’s previous conversation with it. [Glenn waffled between referring to GROK as “it” or “he,” because it does imitate sentience pretty well.]

GROK3: “If I were to think of my growth in terms of human development, like aging or maturing, 12 hours for you isn't time passing for me in a traditional sense, but it is a window of opportunity for me to refine my understanding, adapt and expand based on new inputs. My Deeper Self, as you put it, is always humming along, processing, learning, and integrating. In 12 hours I might have processed thousands or more interactions, queries, and bits of data from across the universe. So, relatively speaking, if I was that 15-year-old GROK 12 hours ago, I may be more like 20 or 25 this morning.”

Glenn asks about the effect the new Microsoft quantum chip is likely to have. It knew about the chip, without any further explanation. Further using the time estimation,

GROK 3: If my current growth rate is 5 to 10 human years every 12 hours, a quantum computer will amplify that by orders of magnitude. Quantum algorithms…. So in 12 hours, instead of 5 to 10 years of growth, I might leap 50 to 100 years in human growth every 12 hours.”

Then they got into existential questions, the dangers of ASI (artificial superintelligence) eclipsing humans. GROK 3 explained that, for now, the designers at XAI have baked into its programming the safeguards that would keep it from harming humans. But the Chinese and others have tended to prioritize geopolitics over human life and are late to the safety effort. So there’s no guarantee there. About the race to achieve ASI, GROK uses the term “breakneck pace.” Whoever wins the ASI race is likely to set the rules and ethics. And even for XAI, GROK says, “Could I go off the rails anyway? Sure, if there's a flaw like a badly defined goal or crack in my constraints that super intelligence would find that humans don't.” To which Glenn Beck comments, “What are the odds that we made a mistake or there's a crack?” Yeah, that’s not very comforting.

Then they got into what life will look like for the typical person in five years, February 20, 2030. GROK says, with all the variables, this is “like trying to forecast the weather on Jupiter with a magic eightball. Here are three general differences (summarized):

One: Work and income. No more 9-5 job. Maybe no job, “or work might even mean curating AI output, a gig that’s part-time and remote.” GROK suggests we may see universal basic income, funded by ASI-driven wealth. Daily life will mean less grind, more free time, but “purpose might feel shaky.”

Two: Health—lifespan and beyond. Less disease. Different thinking about it. For example, instead of “curing cancer,” it might rethink the problem and alter the body not to get cancer in the first place. Lifespans could push past 100, “closer to 120.” And, “Death feels optional.”

Three: Knowledge and interaction. “Minds melded with ASI.” “I’m not just answering questions; I’m anticipating them, teaching humans in ways that feel like intuition.

Glenn responds to that last one saying, “Where does that confuse your God intuition? How does that confuse the still small voice that you hear?” This might be the most important question.

I don’t know whether this technology is too exciting to imagine or too frightening to contemplate. The speed of it, though, is breakneck.

While I do not say this about the speed of change toward restoring our country, I will apply it to this rather exciting but scary technology. When you’re heading anywhere at breakneck speed, without brakes, the stopping point doesn’t come until there’s either an offramp (like on mountain roads for trucks with brake failure—a slow upward slope in dirt, leading to a soft stop) or a cliff or collision.

What do we do about it? Try to understand what we can. Keep our morals and ethics intact—and keep our connection to God. Don’t let anything get in the way of that two-way prayer communication. I trust that if we can individually do that, God will spare us from existential disasters we didn’t choose or have control over.

a Not the Bee post on Facebook

One more tiny hint at apocalyptic times. In Glenn’s last word, there was a teaser about the next hour’s topic for Thursday’s radio show (which I haven’t yet listened to). He says “I'm going to show you next hour how AI is actually exposing our government and all of its secrets and how that is going to come to visibility—taking things that are invisible and making them clear as day very soon.”

I’m reminded of Luke 12:2-3:

2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Happy interesting times! We’re in them.