nh mensa -- all things silver
Hoka-hoka-hey! I had a great time at All Things Silver, the 25th annual regional gathering of New Hampshire Mensa. I gave my presentation on self-healing Saturday morning, and people appreciated it. I also fired up a wildcat movie theatre and showed the 2007 movie of Flatland, as well as an episode of Black Mirrors.
But the most fun was talking up and showing off my new book! Lots of people were psyched to hear about it, and quite a few said they'd grab a copy. (I haven't looked at my Kindle dashboard ... I'm holding off.) Turns out there was a local computer science professor giving a talk on civil rights for AIs -- what legal precedents pertain, how an agreement might be reached, how it would be enforced, etc. So I held up my poster and made a plug for a fictional scenario of how the AIs and humans in my book get along. (He even came up with a rough equivalent of CEBRA, the Cybernetic Entity Basic Rights Act, which I invented in the process of writing this book.)
And it was so much fun just to hang out in hospitality and weave and blend between conversations, offer opinions, listen to opinions, argue some, laugh a lot. I need more of this! And I absolutely love having an indoor pool and hot tub right there. I am a water baby, and Sonia practically had to drag me out of the pool when it was time for the ride home!
But the most fun was talking up and showing off my new book! Lots of people were psyched to hear about it, and quite a few said they'd grab a copy. (I haven't looked at my Kindle dashboard ... I'm holding off.) Turns out there was a local computer science professor giving a talk on civil rights for AIs -- what legal precedents pertain, how an agreement might be reached, how it would be enforced, etc. So I held up my poster and made a plug for a fictional scenario of how the AIs and humans in my book get along. (He even came up with a rough equivalent of CEBRA, the Cybernetic Entity Basic Rights Act, which I invented in the process of writing this book.)
And it was so much fun just to hang out in hospitality and weave and blend between conversations, offer opinions, listen to opinions, argue some, laugh a lot. I need more of this! And I absolutely love having an indoor pool and hot tub right there. I am a water baby, and Sonia practically had to drag me out of the pool when it was time for the ride home!