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You heard this in the early days of computing, a bit of a joke, and often it was just humans erring, but now, we can really see what a computer is capable of. Stephen Haking was right, AI is terrifying.

"The time has come for you to take action if the top of your guitar caved in. Dry guitars will begin to dip in the water, taking the bridge with them. In addition, by doing this, you will have significantly reduced your ability to move your head. As wood moves and contracts around it, it is possible to notice a bracing pattern beneath the top. The first step you can take to avoid this from occurring is to ensure that your guitar is properly humidified. Furthermore, excessive humidity can cause the finish of the guitar to discolor and mold to grow. As a result, if any of these issues are becoming obvious, it is time to tune your guitar."
 
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Guildedagain said:
Furthermore, excessive humidity can cause the finish of the guitar to discolor and mold to grow. As a result, if any of these issues are becoming obvious, it is time to tune your guitar."
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Would mushrooms grown on rosewood taste like bubblegum? What's that? Mushrooms grown on rosewood do taste like bubblegum?

"My guitar has a glass top, should I take any special measures to prevent growth of mold? If so, how will this affect the humidity?"
 
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Meanwhile, over at Google Quora the Prompt Generator's working overtime, bless its pointed little head:

Why is San Francisco a port city?

What is your opinion on the usefulness of a bottle opener, screwdriver or corkscrew? Why?

If you drive without license plates in California, how long will you be able to drive before getting pulled over?
 
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Charlie Bernstein said:
I want to see that guitar in the water take out a bridge.

Maybe AI can get a picture of it for us.
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Got it. One good impact on the tower pier and it's all she wrote.


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Charlie Bernstein said:
Photographic proof. I love reality!
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One of my aunts gave me a subscription to National Geographic when I was a kid. The other one gave me a subscription to the Weekly World News. My mother gave me The Electric KoolAid Acid Test (after vetting it first). Marvel comics were dessert after the serious stuff.

A rich cultural experience enhances one's appreciation of reality in its many forms. Some forms more than others, though.
The Heaven and Hell thing. o_O

But reality is in the mind of the experiencee (as opposed to experinceor). There's artificial intelligence and then there's human insight.

I present what is in my humble opinion the single most sublime panel ever drawn on a comic book page, panel #5, from Strange Tales #126, November 1964:

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"2-dimensional object"....looking like a sheet of paper blowing on the wind...drawing in the minds of errant youth everywhere.
In a defacto self-parody yet.

Steve Ditko (who also gave us Spiderman) was a genius. And his unique quirky style is as instantly recognizable as Hendrix.
Humans is such unreal animals.

(BTW when Ditko drew that in mid-'64 LSD was barely a blip on the horizon, even though he never did use drugs. According to reliable sources, anyway. Marvel's own Frank Zappa.)
 
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Speaking of Steve Haking (sic) and Dr. Strange, I hereby declare reality to be obsolete. It's already passed us by.

Space IS Time and we're too slow.

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"In practice, the smallest measure of time ever recorded experimentally was 7 to 20 attoseconds, then there is an explanation of how much that means. That was the time it took a helium atom to expel an electron. A group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute achieved this feat using two laser beams to measure time.

The results of this experiment could one day be useful in quantum computing and superconductivity. The scientists, in addition to timing the expulsion of the electron from its orbit, also photographed this moment (pictured above).

Now let's get an idea of whether or not an attosecond. That's a unit of time a thousand times smaller than a femtosecond and a thousand quadrillion times smaller than 1 second. It is such a fantastically brief instant that during it light travels only the derisory distance equivalent to three hydrogen atoms lined up (to form 1 centimeter you need to line up 100 million atoms just like that one).

The time of 10 to the -23 seconds, for example, is 100 million quadrillion times smaller than the second. That's how long light takes to travel a distance equal to the diameter of a proton, a particle 100,000 times smaller than a hydrogen atom."

Courtesy of RI Shohag on Google Quora.
 
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Helium atoms having a rave up. Baby stars on the way.

We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to chuck our cellphones in the ba-a-a-y........
 
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