A man is one who will not do to anyone anything that they would assault or kill someone for doing the same thing to one they cared for.

A good lesson on why honesty is the best way to stay sane.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Cover of the original Car Wars tabletop game.

A vehicle like that was my fav back in Jr High

At 58, I have rebuilt myself a few times, I enjoy it and it is rewarding but it is hard sometimes.

Truth!

Wish the follow up had been, Did this body certify that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election?

I'm with Trey, that opening paragraph drew me in, spelling errors and all.

Another bright light gone. One that made other lives better.

When I was 11 or 12 I taught myself BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20. The VIC-20 did not understand 10 PRINT"Hello", it understood, 0011000100110000001000000111000001110010011010010110111001110100001000000. GOTO 10 is, 01100111011011110111010001101111001000000011000100110000. That's intelligence?

Humans have spent their lives pondering that question. I like Socrates, The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Intelligence is the intersection of knowledge and wisdom.

Diogenes with a calculator is just faster than Diogenes without one. Per my reading of McLuhan the calculator is just an extension/enhancement of the human ability to count. Embedded, representational knowledge, yes, but not intelligence.

Would you say that an abacus or slide rule is intelligent? They do the same thing my HP 41CX does, saves me "the work of the multiplication".

A digital calculator is a switch box, all it does is take in a switch state that then creates a cascade of switching to arrive at a final switch state, ready to take in the next switch state. Just like the clicking gears of the, hand cranked, difference and analytical engines of Charles Baggage.

I drive a car to work because it is too far to reasonably walk and no public transit. The fact that I use cruise control for the highway portion is not the car exhibiting 'non-zero intelligence'. It basic feedback control, not the car 'sensing' anything, and can be done mechanically.

Your definition of intelligence, "the ability to sense, make and execute plans to achieve a goal", implies agency. I do not see how a calculator, or a car, can set goals and then execute plans to achieve them when neither of them have agency.

Yes I am doing the algorithm. The HP 41CX does not turn itself on.

My HP 41CX requires that I turn it on and then press 69, ENTER, 420, x, 7, + to get 28,987. How can it be intelligent when I am required to run the algorithm?

It is grief, It is normal, It does get easier to handle. Lean on friends and family.
I lost my dad to his own hand and the hardest day was the day I realized I had lived longer than he did. He taught me things I needed to be here today so I still feel his love.

Brilliant!

Yep!

And how soon will Chip Roy want to strip Citizens of their rights and be deported for their "ideology"?

Amen! And great adaptation of a classic.

An argument with some merit, definitely playing with fire though, and I hope he gets burned.

Impeach and Convict John Roberts!

Great story.

Sarah Bagley.

#ResistanceRoots

Sarah Bagley was born on this day in 1806 in Candia, N.H. She was a labor leader and social reformer who spearheaded the first major union for working women in the U.S. She is best known for her activism on behalf of female mill workers in Lowell, Mass. /1