Can you imagine when it’s normal for robots to have significant spending power, and become a target for advertisers? They’ll need another robot to go “well this ad is targeted at robots so I need to make sure to not show it to any of those pesky humans”

Make charity obsolete!

He’s in such a hurry to create The Culture that he doesn’t even realize it’s a -left- wing utopia.

Wait for it to cool down so you can taste it when you chug the whole thing luke warm.

Which processes? Does it wear them for me?

When you have more options to pick from, you can choose the one that most closely aligns with your views, rather than just picking the least bad one.

You’re thinking of robots as specialists and humans as generalists. All it’d take is a robot generalist.

You gotta read the opening to Diaspora, by Greg Egan. https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html

Well I think it’s nifty.

A “dimension” is just something that can be measured. Imagine you have a square of paper and it has 5 coins on it. It has a width, a height, a thickness, a coin count. That’s 4 dimensions already. It also has zero elephants on it, now we have 5 dimensions!

The trick is to only consider the “dimensions” you’re actually interested in.

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Can you use that for non-work travel too?

“¡Eat a duck - y mas!” - tacky Japanese restaurant in Mexico.

Hipsters were into overpriced coffee since before it was cool.

My number is > that, but I wouldn’t describe myself as “not a kid”

There’s an article?

Legba would like to know already knows your location.

No, it’s an abomination. But also yes.

Once could, if so inclined, put cake between two slices of bread. It’d be hard to argue that’s not a sandwich.

There’s no y in data or database. The only source of confusion is that Star Trek character weirdly dipthong-ing his name.