[ExI] DeepMind’s Vibrant New Virtual World Trains Flexible AI With Endless Play

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Sun Aug 8 03:26:15 UTC 2021


On 2021-8-07 03:52, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
> Basically, emails are normally sorted by the local received date &
> time for you to easily view the latest new emails as they are shown at
> the top of the list. [...]

That doesn't work so well for me because I often move items between 
folders, and such an item is "received" at the time of transfer.

>	[...]
> But in this case, John is in the Philippines and your email system is
> displaying his local sender time instead of the time you received the
> email.

Yes, because his computer tells the world it's on California time. 
That's what "-0700" in the Date header means.

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