<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">The inevitable conclusion of all of these forces is that machines will</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">someday make all of our important decisions. We are probably less than</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">ten years away from that.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">BillK</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">If people don't like it, they won't do it, unless of course their Facebook friends are doing it too.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">So diets and other fads will come and go as usual.  No problem.  And nonconformists will ignore them.  </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">What fads from ten years ago are still around?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">Five?  People think they like structure but what they really like is freedom from structure.  They are less like sheep than people like me think they are.  (Is that sentence an oxymoron?).  Or maybe they are for a while and then they follow something else.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">If machines are making decisions without being programmed by people, I am unaware of it.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">Over 60% of people are getting their news through Facebook - F finds out what you like and directs you there, creating polarization.  Just btw.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:58 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From Scott Adams blog:<br>
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<<a href="http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153301052341/working-for-the-machines#" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.dilbert.com/post/<wbr>153301052341/working-for-the-<wbr>machines#</a>><br>
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someday soon our technology will tell us how to eat, when to sleep,<br>
when to sip water, when to exercise, and even who to date. Once<br>
married, technology will tell you the best time of the month for<br>
procreation. It might even clear your calendar by rescheduling your<br>
day.<br>
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The inevitable conclusion of all of these forces is that machines will<br>
someday make all of our important decisions. We are probably less than<br>
ten years away from that.<br>
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BillK<br>
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