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May 16, 2022Liked by Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

“The biggest problem with cigarettes is they don’t come already lit.”

I think Fran Leibowitz said this, or something like it. I agree.

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She also said, "Your bad habits can kill you, but your good habits won't save you.”

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You may be interested in reading the book I’m working my way through now: The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back.

I’m only at the halfway mark so can’t comment on how to fight back, but can say there were experiments with text-based conversations with AI as far back as the 60’s by a German working at MIT, Joseph Weizenbaum. He later regretted his experiments because he witnessed how easily people believed they were interacting with a real person and how that technology could be used against them.

https://amzn.to/3FOEiZr

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