<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ours must be a most puzzling world to non-hip older people who don't keep</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">up. spike </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Oh well, I will tell this on myself: I have two 13 year old girls who mow, rake, plant roses and so on. They want to take music lessons from me but don't have the time. So to get them started I thought I would loan them some of my CDs. I asked them about their player but they said they didn't have one. Aghast at the poverty of a family with young kids with no CD player, and not knowing the state of the finances of the family, I decided to call their mother and ask if it would be OK to buy them one, perhaps a medium sized boom box.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">She said that no, they didn't have one. The girls have Ipods and Ipads and access to Youtube and others, and could get virtually any music of any kind for them, so what did I want them to listen to?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Duh. bill w</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">p.s. - I have a great and wonderful stereo system costing many thousands of dollars. I do wonder if the kids now listening to iPods with earbuds have any knowledge of just how music can sound if you have true bass (15"" woofers) and very high fidelity (way, way past compressed MP3 files). Since I have hearing aids in both ears I cannot find out what they are hearing. Probably the only time they get to hear good sound is in movie theaters.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 1:31 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"><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] early indications of an unfriendly ai<br>
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 5:48 PM BillK via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> ... The rogue AI just has to read your phone records... BillK<br>
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Ja, you are right, hadn't thoughta that. Oh shit. <br>
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>...Yeah... Heck, I've seen homeless people with smartphones. Regards, Dan<br>
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Well of course they do, Dan. How else could they process donations? I<br>
don't know how it is in Australia, but yanks don't carry cash anymore. If<br>
they do, I wouldn't want to touch it. We offer the homeless person alms or<br>
mercy, she whips out her phone: "Bless you kind sir, I accept Samsung Pay,<br>
Tabbed Out, Gyft, PayPal, TransferWise, Venmo, Google Wallet, physical<br>
precious metals and any prescription pain medication."<br>
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Ours must be a most puzzling world to non-hip older people who don't keep<br>
up.<br>
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spike<br>
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