Ayuh. That boat, like most racing boats I know, is a long story of expected and experienced disasters that required field modifications to avert. But, as the skipper is fond of saying, "if the foredeck doesn't have blood on it, you aren't working hard enough."
HALO Effect Originally shared by Noah Friedman This is how automation is probably going to kill us all: tell a computer to optimize for something and it will. (This observation is just a variation on the nanotech grey goo problem.)
The Service Economy I've also been there, done that, only with much less fear for my life. via Meep https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21?ec_carp
Don't fall down the stairs.
ReplyDeleteSomeone must have slipped on a hatch once upon a time . . . .
ReplyDeleteAyuh. That boat, like most racing boats I know, is a long story of expected and experienced disasters that required field modifications to avert.
ReplyDeleteBut, as the skipper is fond of saying, "if the foredeck doesn't have blood on it, you aren't working hard enough."
I'm about a quarter into re-reading Moby Dick - the Cap't isn't named Ahab by any chance? : )
ReplyDeleteNope. Tom. As in, "Unca' Tom". And we is his Boat (insert plural famously politically incorrect word here).
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