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James Faulk's avatar

Trog Three-Wolves sold me half a ton of maimed mammoth and never told me about the freezer burn. An old swindle but a good one.

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Freeman69's avatar

It seems to me that it's 'just' our psychological baggage (including cognitive & behavioural issues) that direct us away from asking questions that make us look un-cool.

A basic, self-aware, AI (like a child) wouldn't have any reason not to ask obvious questions.

(Then again, how much awareness would an AI have compared to us? After all, it's not clear how an AI could be made to perceive colour as colour; or if it could have any psi-related experiences.)

What we *are* might turn out to be a function of what we create, just as the opposite is true.

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Billy Cox's avatar

When it comes to questioning authorities about UFOs, I think most journalists would gladly defer to AI versions of themselves, create a safe distance, and let algorithms conduct the inquiry.

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Freeman69's avatar

Maybe that's an indication of a natural progression. We really will stop thinking when machines start doing it for us.

I'm starting to wonder if all the reports of close encounters are biological creations of AIs, and it's the AIs that do all the space travel. (Unless they set up Stargates for the natural, biological aliens.)

Do we become more than we are now, or do we diminish and disappear, having served a purpose, once machines start to have ideas.

Maybe it will take an AI to prove that we're more than what we appear to be.

Things could become very interesting, if a balance can be achieved - which happens to be the modus operandi of the universe.

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Freeman69's avatar

:) AI is the attempt to recreate the original spark of awareness and intellect, while its creators devolve into mindless automata, trading cryptocurrencies.

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Freeman69's avatar

Cryptocurrencies (I have my doubts) - exchanging one corrupt system for another? How smart are these guys...

Live Free or Die Seasick: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading

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Bill Pilgrim's avatar

Nicely worded and spoken, Billy. The fact that newsies did not dig deeper into both men's stories underscores once again their lack of curiosity concerning so-called fringe phenomena.

There were witnesses to Ilyumzhinov's mysterious absence. He was just being brought home by his extraterrestrial hosts when his driver, a minister and his assistant, who had arrived to pick him up for a meeting, were about to instigate a large scale search upon finding his apartment empty. He reappeared in a room of the apartment that had just been thoroughly searched.

The poor guy had to put up not only with widespread ridicule, but also pressure from certain Duma officials who were concerned he might have revealed sensitive state secrets to the ETs!

As for Talpazan, I've been fascinated by his paintings for years. His details of scout ship interiors match rather well with descriptions given by some of the early contactees - especially the pillars that stretch from top to bottom of the crafts. (Explained as the electromagnetic poles of the ships.)

Bottom line: the Great Taboo might be dissolving, but not yet enough to motivate newsrooms to look beyond cryptic Pentagon press releases.

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Billy Cox's avatar

Knowing what questions to ask requires a long slog through history, no shortcuts. I'm still trying to catch up.

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Bill Pilgrim's avatar

Fair enough. But there are plenty of folks in UFO world who have a learned grasp of the history. Why don't reporters just talk to them rather than embark on their own crash course. ( There have been a couple, though, such as the recent space.com interview of Leslie Kean.)

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LeathaMarie's avatar

Chess comes from space, they say. Maybe that is why I can't play it with any success.

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Billy Cox's avatar

A chimpanzee once took two out of three from me in checkers.

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Joeschmoe's avatar

Off topic, but it looks like john Greenewald nailed another one in disseting the Wilson Davis encounter by pointing out the incongruity in the official seals and relationship of the involved agencies confirming that what he reviewed as a clever hoax..refer to his FB post .....dated 9-6-21

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Billy Cox's avatar

Greer's "NRO" document was breathtaking in its ineptitude. I mean, citing the incorrect statute for the Espionage Act in an "official" document? HFS ...

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Rhana Bazzini's avatar

I must come clean. I cheated.

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Billy Cox's avatar

It takes a lotta gall to cheat a monkey at checkers.

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Rhana Bazzini's avatar

Why have a gall bladder and not use it? :-)

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