Vikings Archives - Adrian M Leishman https://adrianleishman.com/tag/vikings-description/ Software Developer | Author | Factotum Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:42:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://adrianleishman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-aml_shield_logo-75x75.webp Vikings Archives - Adrian M Leishman https://adrianleishman.com/tag/vikings-description/ 32 32 Would Vikings use AI? https://adrianleishman.com/blogs/would-vikings-use-ai/ https://adrianleishman.com/blogs/would-vikings-use-ai/#respond Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:42:42 +0000 https://adrianleishman.com/?p=755 Uh, hell yes Vikings would use AI. Of course, I’m not referring to the Minnesota Vikings, this is about the real ones with axes, ships, and fire, lots of fire. They rose to power with their eagerness to utilize inventions that other groups didn’t have access to at the time. Weapons, trade, farming, metal crafting, […]

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]]> Uh, hell yes Vikings would use AI. Of course, I’m not referring to the Minnesota Vikings, this is about the real ones with axes, ships, and fire, lots of fire. They rose to power with their eagerness to utilize inventions that other groups didn’t have access to at the time. Weapons, trade, farming, metal crafting, sailing, the Vikings were voracious consumers of new and useful technologies. Eventually, other groups adopted their highly effective techniques, so the once mighty Norse faded into the background as much larger populations learned and improved upon these tools.

I have to laugh at the Norse Pagan wannabees who sit around roaring bonfires praying to the gods while embracing modern concepts of diversity and a tree-hugging love of nature. Vikings never did any of that. They were brutal, selfish, explorers, users of land… in short: The Viking people were freaking awesome and made sure everyone knew it.

You can keep trying to rewrite ancient history to fit your narrative, but we all know that’s just a fantasy to make you feel good about yourselves. Viking men and women were the epitome of alpha humans. They abandoned their genetically defective children to wolves, killed for sport, took what they wanted from weaker people, and cherished the concept of strong family.

So, yes, Vikings would most definitely use AI rather than remain dependent on a bunch of unhealthy, self aggrandizing, weak bodied outcasts. Unlike those gloriously violent Norse opportunists, the people whose livelihoods are about to be replaced by AI will never lift a finger to defend what they claim as theirs. This is what separates Vikings from us pathetic “modern” humans.

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]]> https://adrianleishman.com/blogs/would-vikings-use-ai/feed/ 0 Vikings https://adrianleishman.com/blogs/vikings/ https://adrianleishman.com/blogs/vikings/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:21:26 +0000 https://adrianleishman.com/?p=665 My writing is flavored with Norse, Viking, mythology. We all have our weird obsessions, and the romanticized life of Viking explorers is mine… well, one of them. Now, I’m not one of those Larping wannabees who dress in furs and talk with an affectation made up by television and movie writers. Hint to those guys: […]

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]]> My writing is flavored with Norse, Viking, mythology. We all have our weird obsessions, and the romanticized life of Viking explorers is mine… well, one of them. Now, I’m not one of those Larping wannabees who dress in furs and talk with an affectation made up by television and movie writers. Hint to those guys: There wasn’t audio recordings back then, and the Vikings left very little written texts. What you see on TV is make believe created in a conference room by a bunch of people who would never survive in the 800s.

While I love the architecture of the late Viking era, adhering to their documented customs makes little sense to me. If you took a Viking kingdom and gave them all the power of modernity, I have no doubt they’d embrace it… and probably use it to subjugate the weak.

What I really love about them is their fascination with exploring. It’s why I like Elon Musk, Jacques Cousteau, Einstein, Oppenheimer, and so many more. They are driven to expand our knowledge, and thrust our species out into the universe, for better or worse. My love for the Vikings extends to all the daydreamers who push the boundaries of human engineering and science.

By extension, I have little to no empathy for those who don’t at least want to expand human knowledge. If a person simply exists with no useful drive, I want nothing to do with them. The idea of wasting resources on useless eaters repulses me.

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