[ExI] DeepMind’s Vibrant New Virtual World Trains Flexible AI With Endless Play

[John Grigg]

BillK wrote:
"So you just have to be prepared to answer emails before you have
received them and also answer emails many hours old that you have
just received.  :)"

Hey, I'm finally the time traveler I always wanted to be! Well, in a
Kafkaesque sense...  ;  )


On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 3:55 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 at 07:14, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-8-07 12:57, John Grigg via extropy-chat wrote:
> > > If any place can bend reality, it is the Philippines! Lol
> >
> > Headers in this one include:
> >
> > > Received: by mail-vs1-xe2c.google.com with SMTP id k24so6567673vsg.9
> > >  for <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 21:54:28
> -0700 (PDT)
> > > X-Received: by 2002:a67:ecd3:: with SMTP id
> i19mr12031086vsp.35.1628312053182;
> > >  Fri, 06 Aug 2021 21:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 12:57:30 -0700
> >
> > I guess the rest of you are using readers that look at something other
> > than the original Date header.
> > --
> > *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> Basically, emails are normally sorted by the local received date &
> time for you to easily view the latest new emails as they are shown at
> the top of the list. This helps if you have a to-do system where you
> need to know when you received the email. You might miss an email that
> is dated earlier since it’s automatically moved down the list, while
> an email dated later would cause it to constantly appear at the top of
> the list.
>
> Problems can arise if the time and date setting on your computer are
> wrong or if you have the wrong time zone setting. To add to the
> confusion, some webmail systems use the time zone setting in your
> online account details.
>
> Similarly, the time and date setting could be wrong on the sender
> computer.     Spam emails sometimes do this deliberately.
>
> But in this case, John is in the Philippines and your email system is
> displaying his local sender time instead of the time you received the
> email.
>
> So you just have to be prepared to answer emails before you have
> received them and also answer emails many hours old that you have
> just received.  :)
>
>
>
>
> BillK
>
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