"I have the same existential reaction to robots brewing coffee as I do Trump being elected. It's not dread, at all. It's exciting."
I guess I have less tolerance for excitement than you have. But then, living at a distance (Ecuador) from the fracus, I am somewhat insulated from the immediate effects of the election. Still, the bulk of my nest egg is in the USA, so I don't want to see the whole thing fall apart. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:36 PM, glen ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/07/2016 12:59 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/on-election-eve-a- >> brexistential-dread.html >> > > I like this quote better: > "The point is not to despair, for that is exactly the reaction that people > like Trump want to induce in those who oppose him. The point is to push." > > During an argument (with liberals, but over beer, so it was OK) Friday > night, I was describing how robots could do lots of things we simply won't > do (like read and criticize journal articles to help mitigate things like > this: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/9/160384 -- or > perhaps analyze 650k emails looking for classified info). I lamented the > loss of menial tasks to the robots ... like grinding and brewing coffee... > which is a more pleasant experience than drinking it. My liberal friends > trotted out the idea that there is no rational argument for voting for > Trump, to which I applied the molotov coctail argument. They both accepted > that it was rational, but unreasonable. > > I have the same existential reaction to robots brewing coffee as I do > Trump being elected. It's not dread, at all. It's exciting. I can't > empathize with Trump voters any more than I can empathize with vandals, MMA > fighters, or the drug addicts I sporadically bump into on city streets. > But I do get excited... danger is good ... and not roller coaster > "danger"... _real_ danger. It's good for the soul to find yourself in a > dangerous situation and search for ways out of it. It's fun when you're > forced to code switch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) ... > which I expect I'll be doing if Trump is elected. 8^) > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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