And Yet I Want One

It made me laugh so it’s not completely useless.

I’ve seen software code that does the same thing…OK…hell, I’ve written code that’s done the same thing.

Engineers Rule!!!!

This is not nearly as silly as it looks. Think about the circularity of self-examination. Who, whom?
There’s a lot of cognitive recursion going on here. We are the only organism on the planet that might be capable of creating an entity more cognitively capable than we. We are the only organism on the planet that might be capable of conceiving that we might be capable of creating an entity more cognitively capable than we. We are the only organism on the planet that might be capable of conceiving that we might be capable of conceiving that we might be capable of creating an entity more cognitively capable than we. Et cetera. It’s all turtles.
I remember Jonathan Miller giving a capsule definition of consciousness thus: “that which it is like to be.” I think this is true. Genuine cognition, rather than mere analysis, relies on introspection, if only to cast ourself in the mind of another.
Yeah, reading too much into a silly toy. But it’s fun.

I think the box should be labelled Political Correctness. It will keep on correcting you until you either starve it of fuel or smash it with a hammer; if you do neither it will wear you down and you will give up.

I think this joke is funnier when the machine takes a longer than this to shut itself again.