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met Kofi Annan a few years back in Argos, he asked me if I had any of those small pens |
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Dr. Joe Dispenza |
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so, did u give him your small pen? |
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im not sure, I woke up from my dream |
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lol |
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kofi annan asked u if you had one of those micro penises lol such a bully |
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He was trying to buy a teasmade, but the only item in stock they had was that black obelisk from the cover of the led zeppelin album presence, I wouldn't mind but it was meant to be an argos extra |
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once, I was at a restaurant, and John Lennon sat down at the table. I was too nervous to ask him anything. Then I woke up |
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you woke up and looked under your covers, and yoko was crawling up your legs, squealing like a pig like that film the grudge |
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the fuck kofi knew about micro penises its a mistery to humanity |
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was it ever a mistery |
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was it ever a mistery? |
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extra! extra! war, war in the east and in the west, at small prices! |
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future shadow men |
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today i got to hang out with for a bit. he created ghostscript, and many other things, but now he's mostly switched over to music. best conversation i've had about programming, AI in quite a while. |
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on |
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good to see you interface with a biological entity! |
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just had a browse looks like an interesting guy |
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i was obsessed with a book called "Hackers" by Steven Levy, and, to this day, i highly recommend it. one of the most faithful portraits there is to the spirit of computer science in the 50's through the 80s. in middle school, i found this book, and read it over, and over, and over. i began ranting about it to my father, and, multiple times he responded -- "oh, yes, i was friends with that guy." lpd was one of those people. it was sort of awkward at first -- in retrospect, i feel like he showed up expecting me to request he speak of memories of my father, but that wasn't what i was after. my father passed a bit over two years ago, and i'm as over it as one can possibly be -- never in some ways; resigned in others. what i found i came to miss was what Steven Levy described as "bullshit sessions" -- can an AI have a proper sense of smell? is facial recognition bullshit or not? -- and i got what precisely wanted -- a deep, lively discussion of AI, programming, music, and psychology. the sort i haven't had since my father passed. he is exactly the same age as my father would have been, and he has personally witnessed the whole arc of the computing revolution. but, really, it was so amazingly wonderful to have that level of conversation again. a meandering discussion about AI, programming, and psychology. exactly like i'd have had with my dad. in retrospect, i realized he was a bit wary because he was somewhat expecting me to want stories of my father. i didn't. i already have plenty of wonderful ones. far superior was an old hacker cat of the same stripe, able to engage on a level of conversation i have so deeply missed. |
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nice, glad you had a nice time, did he reckon computers will ever gain any semblance of sentience? |
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I have to go to bed but I will reply tomorrow |
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he started talking about iain banks, third time iain banks had come up in 36 hours; clearly i need to get some of his books |
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good to see you interface with a biological entity! there's a difference between disliking interacting with most people and having difficulty interacting with most people |
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consider this mention number 4 cos i can't recommend his work highly enough. i also believed i was in contact with him in the afterlife for a while there. he was dying for a second time (harsh) |
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for contrast, i was at a bar after work. the waitress and i know each others' names and chat a bit, but she's quite busy, and it's like little tiny snippets with minutes in between. today, there were a bunch of increasingly drunk landscape, er, artists, and one kept slamming his fists down on the bar particularly hard when he found something funny, disrupting everyone's drinks. i timed my exit to be shortly after the guy between me and them left, to avoid the off-chance that they would interact. contrast this to this guy... i don't know what his deal was. some sort of mild retardation, or hardcore autistic or whatever. "is that ALCOHOL?" he asks, incredulous. "hell yes," i reply. "if you're DRUNK they can ARREST YOU" he warns me. i try to explain that, like, as long as you're not bothering anyone, the police don't have the resources to give a shit, even if they did give a shit... but then the conversation shifts, and he surprises me. he knows about the greco-roman gods, the difference in names between the two. "demeter popped into my head in the shower this morning out of nowhere," i remark. it was true. eventually the conversation shifts to the french revolution, let them eat cake. then beheading: back when some ancient early scientist chap was deemed a heretic, and sentence to beheading, he decided to use the moment for science: he told his assistant that he would keep blinking as often he could as soon as his head was lopped off, and that his assistant should follow the head and watch to see how long he kept blinking before losing consciousness. not a good start, really. the guy had annoyed the shit out of the previous person on the other side of him, who eventually left. so, you know, interfacing with biological entities can be quite a salad |
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but not unbearably so. i almost mentioned this to him, given that we'd already spent a bunch of time talking about deep neural networks by the time he brought up banks. but, topics were shifting rapidly, and i let it pass. |
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I know I was only kidding, im like that myself |
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yes, I forget who else it was who was telling me to read some banks, go for it, let me know if its worth while, im pretty sure it is |
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i know. it was just a perfect excuse to vent my feelings about most people, and tell a deece bar story |
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fuckin lollations at a cat named Thou Shalt, that's perfect for cat personality |
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yes thou shalt is the perfect cat name must admit |
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