Dear Revoltingest

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revy,
Which is more enjoyable, Physics or Calculus?

Dear reader,
Thank you for your science related query. As with taste in food or music, the answer is entirely up to you.
But I do have a treat for you...

 

[atanu]

Dear Revoltingest

Yesterday in breakfast I got, among other things, a slice of garlic bread with mixed fruit jam spread over it. Today morning I got a sweet dish sprinkled with mustard sauce. I then remembered that day before yesterday night when I turned in bed I saw my wife giggling.

I had a suspicion. Today I peeped over her shoulder to see what she was doing. I found the page "Dear Revoltingest" open.

Now man, do you wish such things to happen? I just feel awful. What to do?

 

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revoltingest
Yesterday in breakfast I got, among other things, a slice of garlic bread with mixed fruit jam spread over it. Today morning I got a sweet dish sprinkled with mustard sauce. I then remembered that day before yesterday night when I turned in bed I saw my wife giggling.
I had a suspicion. Today I peeped over her shoulder to see what she was doing. I found the page "Dear Revoltingest" open.
Now man, do you wish such things to happen? I just feel awful. What to do?

Dear reader,
One's spouse is not to be controlled, so her personal growth & changes in behavior are things with which you must cope.
You may either develop a taste for her novel concoctions, or discuss the matter with her. Be prepared to admit that you're
wrong about something...anything.

 

[Renji]

Dear Revy,
What do you think of Asia?

 

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revy,
What do you think of Asia?

Dear Asking In Asia,
Yours truly finds Asia to be an exotic far away place. I consume many cuisines from there, eg, Thai, northern Chinese, southern Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Japanese.
I prefer go (from ancient China) to chess. I even know a small fraction of some Beijing Hua I once learned. And many of the people there are cute little scamps.

 

[4consideration]

Dear Revoltingest,

What is world coming to?

Just Wondering

 

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revoltingest,
What is world coming to?
Just Wondering

Dear Just Wondering,
The world will be consumed in a slow firey death by the sun, as its fuel runs low & it expands to become a red giant.
Fortunately for those of us with long term investments, it will happen many hundreds of millions of years in the future.
It will happen like this. (Although, Beethoven will not provide the score.)
[youtube]qm9_gpGF3Xw[/youtube]
Red Giant...And the Earth Burned - YouTube

 

[atanu]

Dear Revoltiingest

Are we robots ? Are you a robot?

 

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revoltiingest
Are we robots ? Are you a robot?

Dear reader,
Thank you for you most internet appropriate question. It could be viewed a couple ways.
#1 - Are we humans robots because we lack free will?
#2 - Are we machines, pretending to be humans in forums?
I'll address both.
#1 - Free will is a hard thing to define, but even harder to test for, because it is impossible to design an experiment to
show an outcome was or was not predetermined.
#2 - As an intelligent & learned poster, you're of course aware of the Turing Test, which measures consciousness in
machines by how well they cannot be distinguished from a human reading their posts. You or I could be a powerful
computer with AI so advanced that humans believe that we are human too.
So to answer your question's 2nd interpretation, I don't know if you are a robot, but I am definitely not one....I think.
Tell me, do you dream of electric sheep?

 

[atanu]

Dear reader,
Thank you for you most internet appropriate question. It could be viewed a couple ways.
#1 - Are we humans robots because we lack free will?
#2 - Are we machines, pretending to be humans in forums?
I'll address both.
#1 - Free will is a hard thing to define, but even harder to test for, because it is impossible to design an experiment to
show an outcome was or was not predetermined.
#2 - As an intelligent & learned poster, you're of course aware of the Turing Test, which measures consciousness in
machines by how well they cannot be distinguished from a human reading their posts. You or I could be a powerful
computer with AI so advanced that humans believe that we are human too.
So to answer your question's 2nd interpretation, I don't know if you are a robot, but I am definitely not one....I think.
Tell me, do you dream of electric sheep?

Thank you, dear Revoltingest. Henceforth, any question or any assertion that atheist called Copernicus raises/makes, I will raise to atheist named Revoltingest.

Ya. Another question. Dear Revoltingest, do robots dream?

 

[Shuddhasattva]

do robots dream?

Jeopardy?

 

[atanu]

Jeopardy?

I do not know jeopardy. Is it a video game? Are robots made to dream in the game?

 

[Shuddhasattva]

The style of jeopardy (a game show, long - and still running I think) is that answers are posed as questions.

Tell me, do you dream of electric sheep?

Is already addressed to your next question:

do robots dream?

A science fiction called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick is the reference

 

[Shermana]

Dear Revoltingest,

What's there to do on a Saturday night for someone who doesn't eat at restaurants, doesn't go to movies, doesn't go to parties, and doesn't like large crowds?

 

[atanu]

The style of jeopardy (a game show, long - and still running I think) is that answers are posed as questions.

Is already addressed to your next question:
A science fiction called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick is the reference

Thanks. Revoltingest has a secretary now.:yes:

 

[Shuddhasattva]

Dear Revoltingest,

What's there to do on a Saturday night for someone who doesn't eat at restaurants, doesn't go to movies, doesn't go to parties, and doesn't like large crowds?

type one handed and spin the hard drive faster and faster! nrrrrrrhhhhh!=

 

[Shuddhasattva]

wait i'm not signed in as revoltingest? crap. brb switching proxy.

 

[Revoltingest]

Thank you, dear Revoltingest. Henceforth, any question or any assertion that atheist called Copernicus raises/makes, I will raise to atheist named Revoltingest.
Ya. Another question. Dear Revoltingest, do robots dream?

Dear reader,
At our current level of technology, certainly not. But this will change. The only question is when.

 

[Revoltingest]

Dear Revoltingest,
What's there to do on a Saturday night for someone who doesn't eat at restaurants, doesn't go to movies, doesn't go to parties, and doesn't like large crowds?

Dear Socially Seeking,
Thank you for your party oriented question. But I lack sufficient background information to offer advice.
Have you a person you're dating or married to? Do you want to go out & socialize, or are you a homebody?
My readers are intrigued.

 

[Revoltingest]

Thanks. Revoltingest has a secretary now.:yes:

Dear reader,
I have no secretary. You are perhaps witnessing a nascent aspect of my advice column, which is interaction between audience members.