[ExI] diamonds falling

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] diamonds falling

On 2020-9-09 20:55, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> We have a place for all this.

>...I know a place where the music is fine and the lights are always low.
>...I know a place where we can go.

Thanks for that pleasant reminder Anton.  This was Petula Clark's finest hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-dbq0CDtc

But ponder this.  Someone makes a fun reference to a song from the long time agos, a real swingin beat, happy fun song, and its in your head, you know the tune but you don't really recall the lyrics, you get the I know a place where the music fine and something something it’s a real swingin space and yadda yakky no mask on your face... oh wait, that can't be right.  But it's gone, haven't heard that tune in 50 years, don't even remember who sang it.

Isn't it just wicked cool to have the internet right here?  We can even watch that drop-dead gorgeous Petula jiggle her stuff, oh my.  Are we living in a dream, or what?  I keep fearing I will wake up and poof, we will be back where we were a mere 30 years ago.  Without this internet, I am suddenly dumber than boiled rutabaga.  We all are, and it wouldn't matter much if we are individually smart, all of it would live, learn and die right here inside this one hairy shell.

But now... we are all individually-replaceable components in a virtual superintelligence.

Life... is... goooooood...

spike