Re: ABMs and Psychology
Posted by
Steve Smith on
Sep 23, 2009; 10:40pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-comm-was-Re-FW-Re-Emergence-Seminar-BritishEmergence-tp3654051p3703800.html
Hey, don't knock it! Fully half of my parrots (14 at
present) are *way* smarter than I am.
I'm not embarrassed by this, it is simply one of life's many humbling
facts. Further, I contend that one cannot fully appreciate alien
intelligence until you've had an African Grey calmly look you in the
eye, then casually reach down and
BITE THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR THUMB
Is this the same thumb you whacked the shit out of with your hammer?
Or is it one of the other ones? How many thumbs do you have? Do you
have a fixation on thumbs? Or is that just me?
I knew there was something odd last time you held out the tumbler and
asked for two fingers and the bottle of Jamesons went empty before I
got to that measure... odd that.
And since I've met your parrots, can you describe which one you call
"Random Philosophy Generator"? That one definitely has us all beat
with his wisdom... Was he/she formerly known as Eliza?
- Steve
and then (still) calmly look you in the eye again and say, "Ow,
Butthead."
--Doug
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, glen e. p.
ropella
<[hidden email]>
wrote:
Thus
spake Jochen Fromm circa 09-09-23 12:55 PM:
> Maybe his parrot farm is just a
> nickname for a huge subterranean data center which dwarfs Google's
> latest and biggest versions? I am impressed.
I figured it was named parrot-farm to indicate that it's a huge server
farm with each machine (parrot) running an eddington typewriter ...
perhaps the parrots even compete to find the best gobbledygook to fit
the query?
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