[FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

[Frank Wimberly]

Understood

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 10:47 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>
>> 505 670-9918
>> 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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