[ExI] what the hell was i thinking?

[Darin Sunley]

Sometimes [ok, always!] I worry about this civilization. "Advertising
company wants to build mind-reading machine so they can charge a premium
rate for extremely targeted advertising" is almost equivalent to what SMBC
had to say about Ghostbusters:

"Ghostbusters is the most American movie ever made. People discover that
there's life after death, so they start a small business and cash in. <...>
This is a film where the afterlife is proven to be real, yet there's an
entire scene devoted to salary negotiation."

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-most-american-movie

"

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:06 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> Cool!
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> https://www.wired.com/story/zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-build-mind-reading-machine/
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> This brings up an uncomfortable question however.  The mainstream press
> keeps saying this whole concept is creepy.  Any time I see anything I
> consider wicked cool, the mainstream press calls it creepy.  That doesn’t
> look good for the old Spikemeister.
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> However, I want this anyway.  If FB can get this to work, I want to know
> what is going on in here.  If I have a way to find out, I can tell myself.
> A long time ago, Socrates suggested: know thyself.  OK cool, now we can.
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> Then we can rig up some kind of automated recording/archiving system which
> we can carry along with us.  Then I can answer a question I have often
> asked myself: what, if anything, was I thinking?
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> spike
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