No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.
-- Niels Bohr, quoted in
What Little I Remember (1979)
by Otto Robert Frisch, p. 95.
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For decades, certain new commanders of the Air Force’s most classified
programs, as part of their induction briefings, would be handed a
piece of paper with a photo of what looked like a flying saucer. The
craft was described as an antigravity maneuvering vehicle.
The officers were told that the program they were joining, dubbed
Yankee Blue, was part of an effort to reverse-engineer the technology
on the craft. They were told never to mention it again. Many never
learned it was fake. Kirkpatrick found the practice had begun decades
before, and appeared to continue still. The defense secretary’s office
sent a memo out across the service in the spring of 2023 ordering the
practice to stop immediately, but the damage was done.
Investigators are still trying to determine why officers had misled
subordinates, whether as some type of loyalty test, a more deliberate
attempt to deceive or something else.
We see the construction [for crypto currency] of a vast machine that
might be one of the most purely wasteful machines ever built. A system
that burns processor power, and coal, and generates nothing but heat
and the solutions to deliberately meaningless problems.
-- Finn Brunton,
Crypto Decoded
NOVA Season 49 Episode 18 (Aired 11/09/2022).
I hate, hate, hate most sitcoms because they're so contrived, and I
keep thinking, This is not how people act or talk at all; it's just a
bunch of TV writers writing jokes that have nothing to do with
anything.
-- Roz Chast. "Daily Humor" (New Yorker newsletter)
Nov. 29, 2024.
Her hair looks like it has had a brush pulled through it once in honor
of my arrival and, before that, not for days.
-- Jules Feiffer. Ackroyd (novel, 1977) p.305.
...when you're talking with the public, it's AI. When you're asking
for money, you call it machine learning. And when you're talking with
each other, it's just algorithms and data.
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we should be better off,
for we should take for certain the contrary of what the liar said.
But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a
limitless field.... A thousand roads lead away from the goal, one
leads to it.