Here's a question. What is it about these particular appeals for your heart and mind that offends you so much?
Every post, every phrase and paragraph, in this entire forum is just that; an appeal to win you over to some point of view. Some of the better, more artfully done appeals are to make us think and laugh and not take ourselves so damned seriously all the time.
And ya'll just have
NO idea how much I looked forward to getting a peek at some of that when my only access was a public terminal in Oakland. ::kiss::
The words are, by design, just the same words that occure throughout the pages; they're as close as the programers and math geeks can come to just what you were reading about.
So what's so different about this now? You can click or not on whatever you like and think what you want to think about it. Making money is not an evil thing to do. Taking it by force or fraud is. But not making it.
I just wonder how good this AI can get. Wonder what's in Have You Read It and if it'll get closer to the mark over time?
Just play with it, dude! Have fun, poke it, bash it, insult it, praise it... see what it does. I'm not done playing with this yet. I won't dig in and decide aforehand whether or not it will work out. But I'm pretty determined to make this work to advantage.
No dirty tricks, either. It's the principle of the thing. This is a free market test. I think totalitarian products and services can't swim these waters. I'm willing to mess around just a little further and see if that pans out even just a little further.
Wanna bet again' it?
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
-- Bill Clinton, 3-22-94