Will.I.Am. I like your music. I am a fan. And I can understand how frustrating it can be when your travel plans hit a snag. But, you show up a mere 45 minutes in advance for an international flight, you might lose your seat. They tell us commoners to show up 2 hours in advance. I hope they at least got you a seat in business class. Or on a later flight. Or, at the very worst, that you had a pleasant flight in coach. Yeah, 8 hours across the Pacific in coach can be a bitch but it is the way most of us fly. It’s probably the way you flew before you were rich and famous. It’s not the nightmare people make it out to be. So, better luck next time, but I’m not too sympathetic to your anti-United tirade.
I have no idea what she is doing in this photo
Miley Cyrus. I didn’t even read the article, but the headline said “Has Miley finally gone too far?” and my first thought was (because this is the way my mind works) “It’s sort of like the discussion about artificial intelligence.”
There really is a comparison here, bear with me. How will we know when Miley has gone too far? There is no Turing test to judge when a celebrity has crossed the line, has passed the point of no return. It seems to me there’s no consistency, either. Some stars say something a little bit off and everybody freaks out, while others can go on a drunken rampage, cursing about niggers and jews, and they keep on making movies and nobody worries about it too much. You know who I’m talking about.
Some people would say that Miley passed the point of no return ages ago. Some are still supporting her. I’m fairly ambivalent. I’ve got nothing against the girl and she is an advocate of legal marijuana, a cause dear to my heart, but I think her stage shtick is kind of gross and embarrassing to watch and her music is unexceptional. As far as her public behavior, she’s nowhere near as bad as Lindsay Lohan, for instance. Or even Winona Ryder.
Some would say we are already in the age of artificial intelligence. One of my students was showing off his phone to me, with Siri. Siri had a nice, sexy voice, and we were just two guys there, so I asked her how old she was, and a lot of dumb guy humor questions like that, and she said “I don’t see how that matters,” which is exactly, precisely what a real woman might have said. She even sounded a bit annoyed.
Some will set increasingly high standards for artificial intelligence each time an old barrier is passed.
Same with Miley. Each time she does something more outrageous, some people will say, “Eh, that’s nothing.” And the bar will be raised.
The point of no return is always somewhere ahead of where we currently are.
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