A quotation from John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) US President (1825-29)
Letter (1809-06-22) to William Eustis
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Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 1617ff (412 BC) [tr. Coleridge (1891)]
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MESSENGER: Nothing is more useful to mankind than a prudent distrust. [ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ:σώφρονος δ᾽ ἀπιστίας οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν χρησιμώτερον βροτοῖς.] Informing Theoklymenos that Helen and Menelaos have escaped to Greece. (Source (Greek)). Other translations: Nought to man's welfare more Avails, than disbelief by prudence rul'd. [tr. Potter (1783), l. 1750ff] There's…
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"Harris took on a studied look of bemusement or incredulity. Trump, for his part, mostly scowled."
Dear Friends of the #unrecognised,
#Interesting how:
- The 'Social' part of #social media includes AI bots
- Who are all these #posters of #incredulity
- This is how to #think (you think?) 
... or maybe not ... 🦞
To put it all in #context. I will never be #effectively using Nextcloud, Facebook, Twitter and am growing tired of so many new 'experiments' leading our agendas.
Maybe I am just a rat spinning my own wheel to nowhere? #Possibly I need to #reassess daily? Oh wait, I do!
Have a great day everyone who can. Everyone, everything is a story and a kindness to be given ... 
A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
«««««
If, dear Reader, what I tell you throws
you into disbelief, it’s no surprise —
I scarcely credit it myself, God knows,
and I was there.
[Se tu se’ or, lettore, a creder lento
ciò ch’io dirò, non sarà maraviglia,
ché io che ’l vidi, a pena il mi consento.]
»»»»»
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/61463/
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Watched Ron Howard's 1985 "Cocoon" last night. I was generally okay suspending disbelief over the core concepts of the story however, my #incredulity would not permit the notion of three patrol craft and two rescue helicopters being deployed to chase down an innocent group of octogenarian pleasure cruisers who are simply going about their evening business.
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment about the potential risks involved in developing artificial intelligence. Its conclusion is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being. It is named after Roko Mijic, the member of the rationalist community #LessWrong who first publicly described it, though he did not originate the underlying ideas.
The basilisk resembles a futurist version of Pascal's wager, in that it suggests people should weigh possible punishment versus reward and as a result accept particular singularitarian ideas or financially support their development.
Despite widespread #incredulity, this argument is taken quite seriously by some people, primarily some denizens of LessWrong.
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Roko's basilisk is a fanciful thought experiment about the imagined risks involved in developing artificial intelligence (AI). The idea is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being. It is named after English mathematician Roko Mijic, the member of the rationalist community LessWrong who first publicly described it, though he did not originate the underlying ideas. The "basilisk" is by analogy to the mind-breaking images in David Langford's short story BLIT.
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