msbelle and Kat'd want a pink one!
Though I'm kinda afraid what the Kat's dogs would do to it.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 11:29:07 am PST #7421 of 10002
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 11:29:34 am PST #7422 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Just make sure the word 'intuition' is in your job description somewhere, and those nasty bitbuckets can never take your place.
You know, more and more I think that 'intuition' is just experience that you don't notice in the background.
flea - Jan 04, 2006 11:30:14 am PST #7423 of 10002
information libertarian
But Malcolm Gladwell (in Blink) argues that what we think of as intuition is actually deeply ingrained and very fast-acting pattern recognition. (Do I have a written job description for "human"?)
brenda m - Jan 04, 2006 11:30:31 am PST #7424 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm getting stupider, Algernon!
I believe the scientific term for this is dumbening.
tommyrot - Jan 04, 2006 11:32:14 am PST #7425 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Us humans can never be replaced by robots, because robots will never have midichlorians.
flea - Jan 04, 2006 11:32:44 am PST #7426 of 10002
information libertarian
Either Jesse IS Malcolm Gladwell, or she's just intuitive.
I have the vanishingly rare opportunity of being alone in my house for approximately the next half-hour. I can't think of the last time this happened. And what am I doing? The same thing I do at work all day. Sigh.
bon bon - Jan 04, 2006 11:33:05 am PST #7427 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I believe the scientific term for this is dumbening.
Ah. You've embiggened my mind, brenda!
Gudanov - Jan 04, 2006 11:34:13 am PST #7428 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Don't worry you're still smarter than the president.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 11:34:22 am PST #7429 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
more and more I think that 'intuition' is just experience that you don't notice in the background
When the revolution comes, you're totally first up to be recycled for fuel.
I, on the other hand, will make sure that apparently capricious leaps in decision making are key to my success as a whatever.
Or, as CJ Cherryh might put it -- flux thinking. I'm quite expert at believing two contradictory things at once. They better not make computers that can do that too.
Emily - Jan 04, 2006 11:34:49 am PST #7430 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Do you know if there have been lessons learnt from chess-playing research that have been parlayed into things that touch our lives?
Well, Turing was interested in the idea of a chess-playing algorithm during WWII ( [link] ), so there's that.
I have no idea how this conversation started or where it's going, and will probably wander away before I find out. But there it is.
bon bon, I have this book of Kakuro puzzles, and am regularly stumped by the "Gentle" ones, so I feel your pain. On the upside, it's improved my mental arithmetic, and last night I was able to count up the bonuses imparted by my Gowayser, cat ears, anime amulet, and utility girdle without having to go "...eighteen, and that gives me three, so nineteen twenty twenty-one..." Anything that makes me a better Munchkin player can't be all bad, right?
Oh, I lied. I won't wander away. I will run off to hide from amych under the bed.