<div dir="ltr">Digital politician staff, perhaps. Do you think the politician actually composed those letters in the first place? Some of them might not have even read them.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-6457887398000052130WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] antiscience from both sides<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think traditional campuses will always be needed. But I don’t think they need to be as big as they are.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’m jealous of people like (apparently) yourself who see no difference between digital products and physical ones…<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi SR, I do see a difference between digital products and physical ones: the digital ones are better. You can do more with them, such as search for a text or phrase you found amusing. I treasure my PG Wodehouse digital collection. My ambition is to become Jeeves when I grow up.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I had an idea based on the response one of my scouts received from the office of a senator. The requirement was to write to any political leader expressing an opinion on any topic. She received a letter back which was easily recognized as a generic form letter, but on the topic of the scout’s letter.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It occurred to me that a software could read the letter (assuming it was typed) pick out key words and fashion a response that generally hit the topics of the letter. It might be a collection of paragraphs on various topics for instance, chosen by keywords from the incoming letter. If we did this with sufficient skill, a letter writer might never realize the communication was never seen by a human. The response could be generated, printed, folded, placed in an envelope, addressed and sent, every bit of it automated.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Electronic mail would be even easier. We could have a digital politician.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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