Hofstadter “discussion” thread number eight

[Don Stockbauer]

and off we go.

[Don Stockbauer]

You know I didn’t hijack this group , apparently no one much cares to post here except me , it got down to three people posting : Mudge who died , I guess he did but then again you can’t trust anything that comes over the Internet,Tian who got insulted and quit , and that left me , so maybe it’s my fault , maybe it’s my fault for continuing on with an enterprise which really isn’t very productive , no feedback except for the solution manual guy.

[Don Stockbauer]

Don’t you get tired of people that complain all the time?

[Don Stockbauer]

I never did believe in miracles,
But I have a feeling it’s time to try.
I never did believe in the ways of magic,
but I’m beginning to wonder why.

[Don Stockbauer]

When there’s no one left to leave you,
even you don’t quite believe you,
that’s when nothing can deceive you.

When that cold gray wind is blowing,
and there’s nothing left worth knowing,
then it’s time you should be going.

[Don Stockbauer]

Daisy, Daisy, give me you answer, do.
I’m half crazy, falling in love with you.
It won’t be a stylish marriage,
I can’t afford a carriage,
but you’ll look sweet,
upon the seat,
of a bicycle built for two.

- HAL

[Don Stockbauer]

“And Toto too?”

“Toto too.”

[Don Stockbauer]

Well, just waiting to see if the grass dries off well enough by 11:00 AM or so to get out there and do some mowing.

[Don Stockbauer]

See beyond the road you’re driving.

[Don Stockbauer]

For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

[Don Stockbauer]

I once heard a radio disk jockey say, “Lesley Gore. Lesley Gore. What a horrible name for a woman! I think she should change it to Herman Gore.”

[Don Stockbauer]

Analogies don’t prove anything, but they’re sure the way to convince people of your point.

[Don Stockbauer]

Lunatic fringe,
I know you’re out there.
You’re in hiding,
and you hold your meetings.

[Don Stockbauer]

I’d love to change the world,
But I don’t know what to do.
So I leave it up to you.

[Don Stockbauer]

Does any reader of this group know what a Putersznit is?

[Don Stockbauer]

here’s the latest speech by President Trump:

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[Don Stockbauer]

I just love physics. The only C’s and D’s I made in college were in physics.

[Don Stockbauer]

There’s a Starman waiting in the sky,
He’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.

[Don Stockbauer]

The strongest system is the synergism of humans and their tools (machines) so machines by themselves or humans by themselves will be weaker.

[Don Stockbauer]

How many questions are there?

[Don Stockbauer]

The best way to handle someone you don’t like is to never communicate with them the rest of your life.

[Don Stockbauer]

Life’s a bitch, and then you die.

[Don Stockbauer]

There are a large number of statements which could be instantiated here.

[Don Stockbauer]

Every interaction in the universe has the form of a game.

[Don Stockbauer]

Man, I wish I could sit in one of them drone control centers like in Colorado or somewhere and I could kill people in other nations from the air-conditioned comfort in my office and never wind up on Forensic Files or anywhere like that. Man, that sounds like the ideal job to me for someone with just a BA in astronomy.

[Don Stockbauer]

Why do I just have a bachelor of arts in astronomy from the university of Texas and no higher degree? well I’m a firm believer in not torturing people.

[Don Stockbauer]

Configuration control is just as important structure, isn’t it?

[Don Stockbauer]

An as was left out , I would go back and correct it but I don’t know how.

[Don Stockbauer]

Never write to somebody too much, they’ll hate you forever.

[Don Stockbauer]

The way to ensure that SETI succeeds is for the global brain to make the Earth go off scale high as far as technology is concerned.

[Don Stockbauer]

Do you think that a large amount of complexity in a civilization is a good thing or a bad thing?

[Don Stockbauer]

Stockbauer’s 4th law: never try to communicate with someone that doesn’t want to.

[Don Stockbauer]

If someone’s warmth for you diminishes, won’t your warmth for them diminish too?

[Don Stockbauer]

If HAL considered itself to be infallible, why did it contain within itself the error screen,
“COMPUTER MALFUNCTION”.

[Don Stockbauer]

Isn’t it miserable writing to someone who gets so much mail they discourage you from writing to them?

[Don Stockbauer]

Supposed someone really gets on your nerves and you want to block them. It’s better to not actually block them but just say you will due to the fact that you want to see what they keep sending you in the future. Don’t go with a delete unread, it’s much better to go with an automated block because the delete unread is a manual operation which takes a lot of work; go with the automated block which blocks anything coming from that person. This is the wave of the future , it’s represents the total automation of our civilization which is leading us to super intelligent machines , spiritual machines and finally the Singularity. This is what we all want, right? Even if you get a stronger system having machines work symbiotically with humans? Most people nowadays seem to favor the nothing but machines future. Why not?