Gee, Nick,did I miss something? On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:47 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank, > > So is sex, if you think about it. Yet, ..... > > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> My grandsons' girlfriends (twenty-somethings) say that they think babies >> are disgusting. I hope they change their minds. In any case, what does a >> shortage of babies have to do with AI? >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> 505 670-9918 >> Santa Fe, NM >> >> On Thu, May 25, 2023, 12:48 PM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: >> >>> Google news decided to surface an article from Fortune today. It's >>> headlined "Society's refusal to have enough babies is what will save it >>> from the existential threat of A. I., Eric Schmidt says". The headline is >>> accompanied by a very serious head shot of Eric. Nice try, Google, but >>> you're not sucking me down that rabbit hole. >>> >>> Meanwhile, someone apparently read my mind about the rationality of >>> disaster prepping and wrote an epic novel about it 40 years ago in >>> Catalan. The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol is available >>> in English translation and as an ebook on overdrive.com at your local >>> library. The narrator crosses refugee swamped Barcelona to check on his >>> mom and gets sent off by her to a McMansion'ed medieval monastery high in >>> the Pyrenees where the elite are amusing themselves with stories while >>> awaiting the resolution of the first war of entertainment. Lots of stories >>> about themselves and their friends and acquaintances. >>> >>> -- rec -- >>> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609
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