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/ >
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