Of course the Singularity is near, it’s right there in my inbox
I had a brief IM episode today regarding these weird emails that just have text – no links, no spammy come-on, just strange text. It triggered an association with The Singularity Is Near (the book I’m currently reading) and I wondered if they were testing email addresses, experimenting with spam-filter circumvention or the first glimmers of machine conciousness.
The full text of the email wouldn’t fit, it was:
your eyes. It’s like trying to describe a glass to someone: you end up
“Maynard Gull, you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, look on his face made me change my mind. The hell with them all, I thought. everywhere at once across space and time.
True confession, the actual email was:
And now comes Roadside Picnic. . . . In the so-called Golden Age of – Then he turned to his little sergeant and gave him an order in a stern “We can start working with time if you wish,” Chiang said.
The above one came in afterwards and I had to use it.
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evolvingtrends said,
July 13, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Good detective –as well as “deductive”– work!
I usually use the name Gordon Gecko (the guy played by Michael Douglas in Wall St… the one famous for saying “Greed is good”) to register a hotmail account and within weeks (without me releasing that address to anyone) I would receive spam addressed to Gordon Gecko that goes like this:
Dear Gordon Gecko,
[spam egg and cheese]
[cheese egg and spam]
[spam egg cheese and spam]
…
When they address me as Gordon Gecko whatever they say gives me joy!
lol … (sarcastically that is)
Marc