RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 05/09/18> When the light bulb finally goes on… and it’s too late.
I think we should be considering the word intelligence, not the word artificial. After all, at least it is intelligence. When you consider that I am technically a genius and I would guess you are too, and yet we are neither of us particularly bright compared to the likes of @enchantedspirit or Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton. That does mean, though, that most of the passengers on spaceship Earth are lacking in the intelligence department. Even compared to us dullards. So maybe we should be grateful for whatever intelligence we can get.
On the whole, though, I am anti-artificial. Artificial cream, for instance, is crap after less than four hours. And speaking of crap, what's with shampoo? Is there any reason we can't have the real thing?
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm a genius, maybe you, but not me. I just have a pretty good amount of common sense, which now a days isn't common anymore. I do believe that intelligence is on the decline over all, and that might be directly tied to the fact that so much information is readily available no one even bothers to look at anymore, just play games, eat, sleep, and play more games on the computer and internet.
The reason we can't have anything real is because we have already let the businesses know we'll accept artificial, if we quit accepting fake we might get some real.
Do you know what a slipstick is? Could you use one? Have you ever used a programmable calculator? I'd guess yes, maybe and no. Virtually everyone our age was exposed to slide rules, and if we had any number crunching to do much beyond 1 + 1 we would use one if we could. The reason I think no to the calculator is that your tech level is lower than mine. Not a matter of intelligence but a matter of passion. From the first alarm clock I dismantled and rebuilt (perfectly.) Mechanics, electronics, carpentry, plumbing, anything that is a tool or requires a tool intrigues me and I have to be as good at it as I can be.
Maybe that explains my bias.
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
Of course I know what lipstick is and yes I have used it when I was a rodeo clown fighting bulls, I liked the deep red color mostly, I just never looked good in the lighter reds and pinks.
And as far as your guesses go, slide rule yes, scientific calculator yes, and I am very mechanically inclined as well. And those "yes" answers mean I know what they are and have used them, along with calipers, micrometers, valve grinding machine and an airflow bench that I use to check the air flow thru carburetors and cylinder heads when I was building racing engines 30 years ago. So I am a "little" mechanically inclined.
But your guess on your bias, I have no clue.