[ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

[spike at rainier66.com]

>>… On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat



>>…I am not as up to speed on hipster sex terminology as you younger fellers.

>…I thought this particular term's carnal affiliation was older than me, and possibly older than you… Adrian

 

It is (I think.)  The term is old (as am I (for I am certainly old enough to be a sex terminology hipster (but clearly I am no authority on these matters.)))  I wasn’t a hipster back then and never really took it up since then.  I was retro back before retro was cool.  My own contact with actual post-National Geographic porn is very limited, intentionally exaggerated in this forum, mostly for humorous effect.  It isn’t my world.

 

Adrian you recall how I am in the times we enjoyed social occasions together.  I have gotten worse if anything.  I found those military surplus 1951s, the olive green wool trousers, manufactured back then for Korean war era soldiers.  If one happens to fit one of their nine standard sizes (I do (perfectly)) then you can get sturdy well-made (even if not fashionable exactly) 75 year old heavy wool trousers for less than 20 bucks, never used, most perfectly preserved (somehow) for three quarters of a century.  Pendleton wool shirts, another timeless changeless “fashion.”  Tossed out everything else.  For the past several years, those are it.

 

Well, OK then.  The way one dresses is a very important way of non-verbally communicating.  The way people treat us is influenced by how we dress.  That is the first thing they see: (Hmmmmm, it’s George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life.)  Well hell, if life deals one some oddball hand, play it.  Don’t fold, don’t draw, play that hand.  Nature dealt me that: I look a little like Jimmy Stewart, I am built like him, and I act a little like he did as George Bailey, even before I ever saw the movie.  So… OK then.  I’ll play that hand, and imagine what would happen if Clarence could time-travel and carried George up to today.  How would he act?  I imagine George Bailey would play this hand.  Don’t know if he would crack porno jokes on the internet, but he would play his hand.

 

Adrian in all this, I will offer a point to ponder:  why is it that retro mannerisms are appealing today?  Why does it sell so well after all this time?  If you view It’s a Wonderful Life and others of that genre today, notice how people say and do, their manners, how they treat each other, then compare that to now.  If one imagines oneself in Bedford Falls in the later 1940s, and carries oneself the way pretty much everyone (except Mr. Potter) did, that still works today.  It really does.  If Frank Kapra taught us anything, it’s the value of whatever that movie has a lotta lotta.

 

spike

 

 

 

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