Thank you for the several decades of smiles over human foibles.

There was some math joke that zero, one and infinity were OK, but the rest of the natural numbers were weird and hard to justify ...

Company also promotes "Community air monitoring"

> The reasoning, I think, was that humans can drive using sight and a little bit of sound, so an AI should be able to do this too.

If memory serves, a few years ago the official position, on a Karpathy presentation, was that if radar contradicted vision they would have to discard one, so they would stick to vision only.

I could never swallow that argument - seems obvious that a radar failsafe would keep you from making bad vision errors ...

>> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence

Neal Asher did pretty well with his Polity universe. Besides AIs with some capacity for playful violence (Agent Cormac thread, but always there), we also get crablike aliens (the Prador war) and very weird biology (in particular the Spatterjay water world).

Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" might qualify, if you look at it right.

Well, depending on whether you view Kern as an AI at all. She certainly wouldn't thank you for implying it.

I got curious what Trey Harris (the original 500 mile story teller) was up to these days, but Google mostly finds me a football player born around that time (2002).

Presumably this is the author given their UNC and SysAdmin background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/treyharris

I found it via a "trey harris sage.org" search on Google.

> Why would a network operator allow caller ID to be so easily spoofed?

Our protocols are descended from the postal system - the sender is a bit of text written on the wrapper.

Certifying that is out of the scope of delivering to the addressee. It would involve back and forth with an authority - e.g. showing someone your id before being allowed to post a letter.

Spy Magazine in its time (mid 80s to mid 90s) had an amusing section titled "Logrolling in our time". Usually featuring mutually favorable blurbs by pairs of writers.

Well, now there are two people who remember Spy.

I wish there was a modern equivalent.

Make that three! I'd vote for a modern equivalent, too.

> There's a huge variety of tastes

And a lot of those are not "tea" (with theine/caffeine), they're herb infusions such as mint, hibiscus, chamomile, etc. You can drink as much as you want without getting the typical caffeine buzz.

I particularly like the Morocco Mint & Spices that Lipton sells.

Decaf: Organic peppermint tea.

Caf: Turkish Caykur Rize tea with a tiny bit of sugar or honey, and boiling water.

(Not OP)

I've used LibraryThing for book boxes. Using smallish boxes (30-40 paperbacks each) so that carrying them is not a backbreaker. Scan the ISBN barcodes with phone app, fix old ones/whatever on web app, tag with box number written on at least two sides. No problems found so far.