[ExI] i got friends in low places

[BillK]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 20:19, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> >...Humans somehow manage to demote software we understand to
> non-intelligence without simultaneously demoting ourselves to
> non-intelligence.  This alone is sufficient evidence of our actual
> intelligence.
>
> spike
>
> Hey cool, I like that.  I shall name the principle after me, then quote
> myself often.
>
> Oh wait, never mind.  In accordance with a previous principle I proposed,
> someone else must have already suggested and named this notion with their
> own idea-stealing name, a long time before I thought of it.
>
> spike
> _______________________________________________


Oh, Nooooo!  I’ve just realised that you have got me chatting about the weather.

<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151214-why-do-brits-talk-about-the-weather-so-much>
Quotes:
According to recent research, 94% of British respondents admit to
having conversed about the weather in the past six hours, while 38%
say they have in the past 60 minutes. “This means at almost any moment
in this country, at least a third of the population is either talking
about the weather, has already done so or is about to do so,”
In Britain, on the other hand, we can be wrapped up against the
elements on Saturday; picnicking in shorts and t-shirt on Sunday; and
battling torrential rain on Monday. That’s just the way it is here.
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BillK