[FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

[Frank Wimberly]

My grandsons' girlfriends (twenty-somethings) say that they think babies
are disgusting.  I hope they change their minds.  In any case, what does a
shortage of babies have to do with AI?

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Frank C. Wimberly
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Santa Fe, NM

On Thu, May 25, 2023, 12:48 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> Google news decided to surface an article from Fortune today.  It's
> headlined "Society's refusal to have enough babies is what will save it
> from the existential threat of A. I., Eric Schmidt says".  The headline is
> accompanied by a very serious head shot of Eric.  Nice try, Google, but
> you're not sucking me down that rabbit hole.
>
> Meanwhile, someone apparently read my mind about the rationality of
> disaster prepping and wrote an epic novel about it 40 years ago in
> Catalan.  The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol is available
> in English translation and as an ebook on overdrive.com at your local
> library.  The narrator crosses refugee swamped Barcelona to check on his
> mom and gets sent off by her to a McMansion'ed medieval monastery high in
> the Pyrenees where the elite are amusing themselves with stories while
> awaiting the resolution of the first war of entertainment.  Lots of stories
> about themselves and their friends and acquaintances.
>
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