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[Don Stockbauer]

number 22

[Don Stockbauer]

pOn Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11:56:44 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> number 22

So chapter 22 of this wonderfulness. why would anybody read somebody's mind delusions and opinions? Isn't our civilization based on fact and logic?

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If you feel a weird affection
You're to shy to convey
Better take my direction
Feel your way.

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"Johnny, study your pataphysical sciences. You want to win the Nobel prize someday, don't you?"

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Many feel that technology is dehumanizing, and yet technology gives us the capability of global communication , and global communication turns the Earth into a living being.

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HAL was an AI with free will . Now can we even build such a thing ? Human free will comes from an immensely complicated brain trained for years and years . I suppose were we able to create AI's with free will we'd install them on every project globally . You might hear them say "Ralph, I'm getting tired of building this dam. I think I'll kill all the construction workers and then go to Hawaii on vacation."

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I'm convinced that all human interaction is just a game , just like chess , that we play these games until we croak , and that our civilization has become so immensely complex you can hardly live day to day life , then at the end you experience BEN, which is blessed eternal nothingness.

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And I believe that one should always be an optimist.

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A genius' most spectacular work toward the benefit of humanity can be belittled by some idiot that's skilled at doing that.

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I'd love to change the world,
But I don't know what to do ,
so I'll leave it up to you .

Could "you" be emergence ,
transcendence, self-organization, and the metasystem transition?

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If the global brain theory is correct then all of our personal transactions: telephone calls, sending emails and whatnot are what governs us rather than politicians.

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is there any way to tell when you're using the Internet wether what you're dealing with is honest, or just a sham? Seems like things weren't so bad until the Internet was devised.?

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So, we're supposed to prevent these wildfires in the American West by managing the forest floor. So how is this going to be done? There's just a few acres out there to perform that on. Like
millions.

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Did you know that you could be busy working at your desk preparing a presentation for your next meeting and then instantly you could be in amongst your fellow angels playing a harp?How could that happen ?Well, an ICBM travels faster than the speed of sound , so you'd never hear it coming and then if it exploded say a mile from you your brain would be vaporized before any signals could reach it, pain or audio , video ,whatever , so your soul would be instantly transported to heaven and there you'd be in amongst your fellow angels playing a harp. Sounds groovy, doesn't it?
Works the same for being put under general anesthesia.

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When Babbage was in school what negative was always on his report card?

"Fails to complete projects."

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I wonder if the word "polysemy" has more than one meaning?

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Gibbous this day, our daily Moon.

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You know, everybody blocks everyone else at the drop of a hat, when someone makes another person the least bit irritated they get blocked , so blocking seems to be the way to go , so perhaps the best answer to it all is everybody on Earth block everyone else.

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I need to state that I did not hijack this group when I came into it they were just several people posting and they all either died or went away , no new person ever comes into the group so I'm it.

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Everything is sure getting complicated, isn't it?

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This is written later . things are even more complicated now, by definition . what's an attribute of life? complexity.

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On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 8:02:40 AM UTC-5, jobse wrote:
> This group has changed very quickly.

If someone will not provide feedback to you they might as well not exist . Hofstadter has stated a good cure for this is you only perform tit for tat. if somebody will not write to you , you don't write to them , the relationship is over and it solves itself . a very very very good procedure tit for tat is.

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Communication is the problem to the answer.

Is that sentence good communication?

What's the referent of "that"? The app amenities sentence?

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The Internet is causing me such trouble, I'm never going to access it again the rest of my life.

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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.

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One thing that's truly hard to believe is if the global brain theory is correct our global communication , person to person , person to machine , machine to machine is what is now governing the planet . Everyday actions such as you watching television , you reading the newspaper , or you having a conversation with your neighbor are communication transactions which form the global brain. If this is correct political leaders are merely window dressing and someone getting 10 years for election fraud is one of the most pathetic injustices on the face of the earth because basically the vote doesn't mean anything anymore . Which is why I haven't voted since 1976.

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Einstein was a specialist in physics.

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Is someone who is skilled at solving small problems also skilled at solving large problems?

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There was an episode of Star Trek where the crew lands on an alien planet and they find computers made by the aliens thousands of years ago . Spock walked right up to them and started using them. And I have trouble with Windows.

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If you lose your temper, you lose.

Try to maintain your lobotomized sheep disposition.

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I never did believe in miracles
But I've a feeling it's time to try
I never did believe in the ways of magic
But I'm beginning to wonder why.

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Relatives who don't visit one another become strangers.

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If you don't like somebody just a little bitty teeny amount, block them.

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If someone refuses to communicate with you, they might as will be dead.

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Is masturbation a "selfie "?

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We forsake you,
Gonna rape you,
Lets forget you, better still.

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I'm creating a list of people who will not communicate with me. It's getting pretty big , right up near aleph null.

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Everybody's ordering all kinds of small items from Amazon . I wonder if anybody's ever performed an analysis of the fuel consumption of having a big truck drive up to your door compared to you driving your car to a business.

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gosh things are sure getting complex if they're this complex now what are we going to be say 100 years from now . will the average person not even be able to live a life because everything is so complex it's beyond his or her intelligence to even exist anymore ? the nuns used to tell us concerning the nature of the Trinity and also what I mentioned just now , these are mysteries we will learn when we die.

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Next time you're sitting outside at night, you're looking at all the radio broadcasting towers with their red blinking lights, think to yourself "Wow, there are the neurones and synapses of the global brain."

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On second thought perhaps the towers are not completely the neurons and synapses of the global brain , The neurons are really in the brains of the human participants and within their communicating machines so all that activity is concentrated and distributed via those towers and comsats so forth and so on but at least when you're sitting out there looking at those radio towers blinking the red lights they are part of the system anyway.

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They've come up with a new final line for the song "Stairway to Heaven": it goes "And she's buying a Rototiller from Sears Roebuck and Company."

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The best way to win a round with your conversational opponent is to just quit . there's nothing they can do about it and you win by being lazy . It's very similar to the game of Mornington crescent. So is World War III.

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So you won that game. the game isn't over . Start the next game.

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The easiest way to have power over someone is to deny that person something.

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Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling
The smell of grass
Just makes you pass
Into a dream
You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to
You look around you
Things they astound you
So breathe in deep
You're not asleep
Open your mind
You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to
Do you understand
That all over this land
Theres a feeling
In minds far and near
Things are becoming clear
With a meaning
Now that you're knowing
Pleasure starts flowing
Its true life flies
Faster than eyes
Could ever see
You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to

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Get up, get back on your feet.
You're the one they can't beat and you know it.
Come on, let's see what you've got.
Just take your best shot and don't blow it.

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Oh , you've won this game. New game in the metagame?

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And although he was Master of the Universe he did not know what to do next.

But he would think of something.

"Anyone for tennis? Wouldn't that be nice?"

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I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the Lord by your side
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord

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How do you deal with imposters on the Internet ?well if they're enjoyable to talk to just interact with them . since the Internet has become a mishmash of chaos that's the best you can do.

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There Is No End To What We Can Do Together
There Is No End, There Is No End
The Willow Turns His Back On Inclement Weather
We Can Do It, Just Me And You

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A fiery steed,
at c,
a cloud of dust ,
and a hearty hi ho Silver.

Doesn't scan too well, does it?

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The latest bit of paranoia going around:

"I had my iPhone on and I had Facebook up and I was talking to my friend about shoes and darn if Facebook didn't start displaying ads about shoes ; just amazing", and then one of the people at KTSA radio in San Antonio went it one better , he said "I had my iPhone on and was just thinking about shoes and then ads for shoes started popping up on Facebook." I believe it.

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Fermat said about his conjecture:

" I have a truly marvelous proof of my conjecture , but alas, I'm too drunk to write it down."

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There was this joke see like there was a guy out in the Outback of Australia and a kangaroo hops up to him and it pulls the front of his pants forward and looks down toward his private area and the kangaroo says "Your babies have died". Pretty doggone funny, eh?

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Is it proper for a couple to pet
on the first date? Assuming that both of them are mature and liberal.

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Anyone can be controlled by ignoring them .

We forsake you.
gonna rape you
let's forget you , better still.

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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 11:02:43 PM UTC-6, Don Stockbauer wrote:

> I'm back here alt.fan.hofstadter. I cheated on you for a while , I went over to Twitter but they kicked me out . I was modifying some of my basic information there but I refused to give them my birthdate. well they took that to mean that I'm under 13 ,It's hard to be under 13 when you're 68. They don't allow Anyone under 13so the only way to reinstate myself would have been to upload them a pic of my drivers license . well I'm not about to do that. The whole thing may be a scam and then they'd have an image of my driver's license .so I gave up . they can have my account , It just contains a bunch of worthless mind drivel tweets anyway. so alt.fan.hofstadter I'm back in your loving arms please forgive me . I'll never leave you again.


In statistics, Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture.

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The lecture was by Jerzy Neyman.

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One must have heroes in life.

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You may fire when ready, off the Gridley.

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Dantzig's first name was George.

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The best way to only use a little toilet paper is to make sure that you're always constipated.

want to see how little people want to interact with me ? just look at the last few thousand posts here.

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This collective intelligence business: sometimes I wonder if a collection of people is actually stupider than a single person.

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Just like a nation can wage war , so it is stupider than a single person or it can land a man on the moon in that case it's smarter than a single person ,so who knows?

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On Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 5:41:58 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:

> I'm a poop poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poop poop that's the sound you get when you try to enable the Apple dictation software on an iPhone but you just get it sometimes you don't get it all the time so inconsistent as it is Annette the way to really screw up a child is to be inIt's to be inconsistent with it but maybe it's not everyone maybe they just worked up a special copy for me

I think my fourth law is going to be whenever you feel a sticker somewhere in clothing if you actually go to try to get it out of the clothing you'll never find it.

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I once heard this disc jockey say, "Lesley Gore. Lesley Gore. What a horrible name for a woman. She should change it to Hermann Gore."

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One of the funniest movies I ever saw was a bondage and discipline movie where the actors had a hard time playing their roles because they were inept at tying knots.

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once I met this lady , I didn't know anything about her , so I asked her if she would consider a sexual relationship , she said "sir, I am a married woman" so I asked her "is your husband into threesomes?"

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You have to believe we are magic ,
nothing can stand in our way.

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So how's the silent majority doing this morning?

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Humans are not the tool-making animal, they're the lying animal.

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relationships are like the mathematical trap door function. Very hard to create but very easy to destroy.

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The Global brain is created by online communication . that sure has increased due to Covid , and so does that mean the globalbrain is growing by leaps and bounds ? you can't tell that it's growing because of the "rising tide raises all boats" effect.

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Ku Klux Klan motto: "it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkies. "

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 8:02:40 AM UTC-5, jobse wrote: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.hofstadter/c/urafh0K0Oow

You know , it used to really irritate me when people would block me but then I started thinking donnn , if we would not have developed all these
messaging systems everybody would be blocked all the time.

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What's the best cure for halitosis? Make new friends.

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I was dating this young lady and we went down to the beach . I was thinking to myself what song can I serenade her with , I know I don't sing very well but I'll give it a try , so what I came up with is a song by the Animals called "We've got to get out of this place " She really enjoyed the lines :

My little girl you're so young and pretty ,

And there's one thing I know is true ,

You'll be dead before your time is due.

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Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.
Any way the wind blows.

Hot air balloons?

Throwing boomerangs ?

Forest fires?

Indian smoke signals?

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Andrew Weil went to his wife and said "Honey, I have proof of Fermat's last conjecture " and she threw her arms around him and screamed and they ran into the bedroom and had wild passionate sex . Then Andrew had to go to her later and say "I'm sorry , there's a flaw in the proof " but he worked at it and he finally got the flaw out and he went to his wife and said, "Honey, I have the proof for Fermat's last conjecture and she said "Sweetie, dinner's on the table", but then Andrew discovered yet another flaw and he worked out that problem, went to his wife and said "honey I have finally gotten a complete and consistent proof for Fermat's last conjecture " And his wife said "Andrew , there's trash to be taken out"

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Well that was kind of true in a way I think from what I heard there was great joy when Andrew told his wife that he had discovered the proof but there was less joy when he told her that there was a flaw in it and he had to patch it up. I have no idea where I heard that , probably a hallucination.

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After he had journeyed
And his feet were sore and he was tired
He came upon an orange grove
And he rested
And he lay in the cool
And while he rested he took to himself an orange and tasted it
And it was good
And then the citrus farmer appeared with a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun pointed right at him and he said "steal another one of my oranges and it's not going to be pretty " so then he got up and walked into town and went to a McDonald's.

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That should be spelled "MacDonald's."

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But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here