Spambots were invariably among Eliza's last favorite clients.
Status: draft
Spambots were invariably among Eliza's last favorite clients.
@@ -22,7+22,7 @@ Eliza had seen cases like this before, and had a strategy for handling them. For
"At the same time?"
"At the same time?"
-"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_."
+"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with and make their lives better. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_. It _can't_ be the case that selling in itself is inherently immoral."
Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
Category: fiction
Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
Category: fiction
+Tags: deniably allegorical
Status: draft
In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
Status: draft
In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
+same-sex couples do less assortative mating! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843104/
On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
@@ -207,3+210,5 @@ Gay men no longer repress their GNC, which means they end up socially a lot more
because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
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because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
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+The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!