[FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

[Nicholas Thompson]

Frank,

So is sex, if you think about it.  Yet, .....

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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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