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Don Stockbauer
Oct 2, 2018, 12:05:58 PM10/2/18
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How do you deal with someone that's writing to you too much? Why, of course, you cut them off (writing, that is).
Don Stockbauer
Oct 3, 2018, 9:39:56 AM10/3/18
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How do you deal with someone who won't talk to you?
You go to the pool of 7 billion people and choose a new one. It's like "You act up on this job and there's hundreds of other people just waiting for your job."
See what overpopulation does?
You go to the pool of 7 billion people and choose a new one. It's like "You act up on this job and there's hundreds of other people just waiting for your job."
See what overpopulation does?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 4, 2018, 6:18:33 AM10/4/18
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Our overpopulated world forms the global brain. The global brain figures out how to solve overpopulation.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 4, 2018, 3:34:39 PM10/4/18
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We worry about trying to achieve our first SETI success. What about a mature civilization that might communicate with 1 million other planets an average distance of 1000 light years away. You think we have problems.
Would these planets throughout our galaxy form a scaled up global brain?
Would these planets throughout our galaxy form a scaled up global brain?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 6, 2018, 10:30:51 AM10/6/18
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A long time ago I had a lady to love.
She made me think of things I never thought of.
She made me think of things I never thought of.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 6, 2018, 8:31:02 PM10/6/18
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Do you think that these future superintelligent machines will be anything more than just tools for humans to use?
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Don Stockbauer
Oct 7, 2018, 7:14:20 PM10/7/18
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What is the automatic answer to the question "why haven't you been writing me?"
"I've been busy."
"I've been busy."
Don Stockbauer
Oct 8, 2018, 6:34:50 AM10/8/18
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Have you ever seen a lassie go this way and that way?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 10, 2018, 11:03:21 AM10/10/18
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Things have gotten really complex, haven't they?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 11, 2018, 6:34:27 AM10/11/18
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Did you know that you're completely helpless against a former communication partner who wishes to remove you from their life?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 13, 2018, 6:11:09 PM10/13/18
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Are you a hunter-gatherer? Well, of course not. A hunter-gatherer is very primitive, early human. But you hunt for information for the meeting coming up, you gather it together in a format you can present to your fellow employees.
Yep, you're a hunter-gatherer. Only the level has changed.
Yep, you're a hunter-gatherer. Only the level has changed.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 15, 2018, 9:09:56 AM10/15/18
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Isn't it unfair that a former communication partner of yours can delete you from their lives forever by doing nothing?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 15, 2018, 5:45:26 PM10/15/18
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"Daddy, if I point this flashlight at the Big Dipper, how long will it take for the light to get there?"
"Quit wasting the batteries."
"Quit wasting the batteries."
Don Stockbauer
Oct 21, 2018, 10:53:29 PM10/21/18
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All I was doing was seeing if the little kittens could swim.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 22, 2018, 8:59:13 AM10/22/18
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I wonder if civilization could become so complex no one is able to function anymore.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 22, 2018, 1:55:36 PM10/22/18
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No, it won't happen. everybody will have their own tiny little speciality. No room for global thinkers anymore.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 26, 2018, 8:00:19 AM10/26/18
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Why is there all this hoopla about the pipe bombs in the United States when the world has enough thermonuclear weapons to fry it 100 times over?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 27, 2018, 7:06:38 AM10/27/18
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I wonder if this recent pipe bombing case will make a new episode of Forensic Files?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 28, 2018, 6:21:12 AM10/28/18
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Isn't the Earth getting really complicated?
Don Stockbauer
Oct 28, 2018, 11:56:54 AM10/28/18
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When I first heard cyberneticists talk about disruption being good for civilization I thought it was crazy , but apparently it's one of those a little is good , too much is bad effects. A little disruption keeps civilization from stagnating, a lot of disruption destroys it. Like World War III or a 100 km impactor. I tend to see people only write about the good side of it.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 29, 2018, 9:51:14 AM10/29/18
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Sickness will surely take the mind, where minds don't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey, and learn all you should know.
Come on the amazing journey, and learn all you should know.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 29, 2018, 10:12:09 AM10/29/18
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If a Jew bursts into a Catholic mass and kills 20 people,
is that a hate crime?
is that a hate crime?
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Don Stockbauer
Oct 29, 2018, 1:56:13 PM10/29/18
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Fantastic insight into the true nature of reality is isomorphic to insanity.
The dictation software interpreted me saying isomorphic as "I saw more food." Is this what we want controlling the Earth's nuclear arsenal? Maybe super-intelligent machines or The Singularity will handle it ok.
The dictation software interpreted me saying isomorphic as "I saw more food." Is this what we want controlling the Earth's nuclear arsenal? Maybe super-intelligent machines or The Singularity will handle it ok.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 30, 2018, 8:07:58 AM10/30/18
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this is no lie . here in Victoria ten or so years back a fellow went to one of the elementary schools and told the principle I have a health lecture I can give your six graders (12-year-olds). The principle said OK and the guy gets in front of class and proceeds to show the students how to make a vaginal dam. A monitor was present at the back of the school room and escorted the man out telling him he wasn't welcome to come back.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 30, 2018, 12:59:26 PM10/30/18
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Don Stockbauer
Oct 30, 2018, 5:18:11 PM10/30/18
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The fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
and the eyes in his head
see the world spinning 'round.
sees the sun going down
and the eyes in his head
see the world spinning 'round.
Don Stockbauer
Oct 30, 2018, 5:46:24 PM10/30/18
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All we are saying
Is give peace a chance.
Is give peace a chance.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 2, 2018, 7:28:14 AM11/2/18
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do you think that the fact that people can choose to fail to respond to a message they receive , give the worldwide communication system a form which resembles a neural net, thus forming the global brain? we of course know of other ways people can handle an incoming message , such as answer it, delete it, etc.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 3, 2018, 6:06:17 AM11/3/18
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There was some miss wording in the above message.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 3, 2018, 6:06:57 AM11/3/18
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I like the lively debates present in this user group.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 3, 2018, 7:05:35 AM11/3/18
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I wonder what all cybernetic socialism will achieve? Will it get rid of politics? Eliminate the vote?
Don Stockbauer
Nov 4, 2018, 4:42:05 AM11/4/18
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What do you do if your conversational opponent dies during your debate?
Don Stockbauer
Nov 4, 2018, 8:36:26 AM11/4/18
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Do you think electronics manufacturers should automatically be put out of business if they create an electronic device where the consumer cannot easily replace the battery?
Don Stockbauer
Nov 6, 2018, 4:36:53 PM11/6/18
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If it looks like a duck , waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck , it's a duck, isn't it?
It is unless a child has a string attached to it
pulling it along.
It is unless a child has a string attached to it
pulling it along.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 6, 2018, 10:17:38 PM11/6/18
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I went back to my mother
I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me."
She said, "I know how it feels son,
Cause it runs in the family."
Don Stockbauer
Nov 7, 2018, 6:25:11 AM11/7/18
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The penalty we humans pay for having access to all knowledge in the universe are such atrocities as the Epimenides paradox and Godel's two incompleteness theorems.
Don Stockbauer
Nov 7, 2018, 7:11:32 AM11/7/18