A shame project Virgle is not real. While I doubt Branson would be on the first mission I’d bet he and the Google boys would love to launch something like this all the same.
Happy April fools day all. This year I plan to clean the house instead of jumping out of a shower in a gorilla costume.
I’m the reading the, so far, excellent The Black Swan and came across Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s turkey based variant of Bertrand Russell’s “Benevolent farmer” moral.
Consider a turkey that is fed every day, Every single feeding will firm up the bird’s belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race ‘looking out for its best interests,’ as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey… …What can a turkey learn about what is in store for it tomorrow from the events of yesterday? A lot, perhaps, but certainly a little less than it thinks, and it is just that “little less” that may make all the difference.
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