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checking here without solving it yourself is cheating
Somehow, It's Funny that Way
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flowerbug
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checking here without solving it yourself is cheating
i have no idea what this is about.
and, well, i don't really care too much, but if you can 'splain it or point me to what i'm not supposed to spoil then i might just have a peek. over breakfast... - Thread starter
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I just thought it was funny satisfying my curiosity by clicking and then experiencing what may be in the emotional background of our turning to artificial intelligence immediately for future answers.
What will resting on answers received from AI feel like? That we cheated? Or, that we are simply tapping into research that might otherwise be a personal bridge too far?
Imagine how each step in technology might have felt, even in the earliest times. "Good goobly goo! You are gonna put 2 round things on a box and have a horse pull it for you? What kinda lazy no-good are you? "
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What will resting on answers received from AI feel like? That we cheated? Or, that we are simply tapping into research that might otherwise be a personal bridge too far?
Imagine how each step in technology might have felt, even in the earliest times. "Good goobly goo! You are gonna put 2 round things on a box and have a horse pull it for you? What kinda lazy no-good are you? "
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Douglas Adams three rules of technology,
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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@Pulsegleaner , I would say that Adams has it near perfect .
I will point out that he leaves out ages 1 day through year 14. This is somewhat surprising to me since Adams was a little younger than me but grew up post-WW2 when so much was changing.
My father's family went through some changes but the Depression of the 30's slowed things down. Migration west for them was in a Model T Ford, fortunately in the 20's.
My maternal uncle liked to say that his mother's family arrived in this neck of the woods by wagon. But, that was only from Kamiah Idaho to Palouse Washington, a distance of about 100 miles. His grandparents stayed in Kamiah and had arrived by train, after the railroad was laid over the Continental Divide.
I would say that I find having a refrigerator and being surrounded by plastic as somewhat normal. This, despite living first with an icebox and having bakelite electric plugs as the only plastic in the house. Polyester, vinyl, plastic wrap – what's that? Is it aluminium or aluminum? I never heard of it before!
Steve ...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
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Ooh, look out, you rock 'n' rollers
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.I will point out that he leaves out ages 1 day through year 14. This is somewhat surprising to me since Adams was a little younger than me but grew up post-WW2 when so much was changing.
My father's family went through some changes but the Depression of the 30's slowed things down. Migration west for them was in a Model T Ford, fortunately in the 20's.
My maternal uncle liked to say that his mother's family arrived in this neck of the woods by wagon. But, that was only from Kamiah Idaho to Palouse Washington, a distance of about 100 miles. His grandparents stayed in Kamiah and had arrived by train, after the railroad was laid over the Continental Divide.
I would say that I find having a refrigerator and being surrounded by plastic as somewhat normal. This, despite living first with an icebox and having bakelite electric plugs as the only plastic in the house. Polyester, vinyl, plastic wrap – what's that? Is it aluminium or aluminum? I never heard of it before!
Steve ...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Ooh, look out, you rock 'n' rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
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Well, the only answer I can give is that for a lot of those first fourteen years, you don't really have all that much control over your life. What things you get exposed to largely depends on the decisions made by others (though this becomes less true as you get to the farther end.) For the first five or so you generally aren't even particularly AWARE of the outside world. Try to ask a two year old what they think about the newest satellite system, and they will have little idea of what it even is. Your early to mid teens is when you really start to become the master of your own world, and have you own choices become the defining driver, or at least a significant factor, of your life's direction.@Pulsegleaner , I would say that Adams has it near perfect
I will point out that he leaves out ages 1 day through year 14. This is somewhat surprising to me since Adams was a little younger than me but grew up post-WW2 when so much was changing.
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The phrase "more than we really wanted to know" comes to mind.
Maybe answers to questions best left unasked.
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so far i have used that about three times.
flowerbug
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The phrase "more than we really wanted to know" comes to mind.
Maybe answers to questions best left unasked.
since i don't go there i don't know but what would it answer to "What happened to the Beaver?
