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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 20 October, 2022 4:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Adrian Tymes <atymes@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Computers are changing humans<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 3:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Interface hipsters, any suggestions? NO dammit I don’t intend to try it,<br>but I want to suggest it on an internet chess forum.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am surprised you make no mention of female anatomy, how a player with that would have ready access to something motorized that fits down there, and how some such players - if found with it - could try to pass off wearing it during a match as a mere focusing aid, pretending it had no ability to communicate (which capability is already available in certain models) or to host a computer.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or just use a hearing aid.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adrian I thought of that, as did pretty much every chess player, but declined to comment for lack of knowledge on how such a device located way you implied could have a workable I/O system. One can fairly easily imagine the O, but not the I part of that notion. Ladies here might not wish to comment online perhaps. With regard to a hearing aid, same situation: I see how it could communicate in the device-to-human direction, but I don’t see how the human to device channel would work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The chess online community of course is in mourning for what appears to be the long-anticipated end of the road for tournament chess forever. I am among those who conjectured on this 20 yrs ago. Chess forum participants are gleefully enjoying use of the terms “chess tournament” and “vibrating anal beads” in the same sentence of course, something none of us expected we would ever see.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adrian, if a technologically sophisticated swindler wanted to create a perfectly covert small computing device in which the I/O requirement is very small, how would it be done? Anyone?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>