{"id":132364,"date":"2016-12-17T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/on-robots-reality-pizza-and-repetitious-intelligence-briefings.html"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:34:10","slug":"on-robots-reality-pizza-and-repetitious-intelligence-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/on-robots-reality-pizza-and-repetitious-intelligence-briefings.html","title":{"rendered":"On robots, reality, pizza, and repetitious intelligence briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Wright discusses how worldviews can blind people, leading them down conspiratorial rabbit holes, or to reject information they don&#39;t want to hear. And that there will always be some folk eager to help such blindings to take place and continue, either because it&#39;s &quot;fun&quot; or because they gain some advantage in being the one-eyed man in the the land of the blind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2016\/12\/blind-spot.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2016\/12\/blind-spot.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good stuff, as usual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6365113553569924849\/6365113552017936386'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-WkOFLBrCmio\/WFVtDT8N0AI\/AAAAAAAEN2c\/mXkANc9r_hYya2nqoSb30W8ywOOHhiBngCJoC\/wwpics_01%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hX14ToyHXbi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Wright discusses how worldviews can blind people, leading them down conspiratorial rabbit holes, or to reject information they don&#39;t want to hear. And that there will always be some folk eager to help such blindings to take place and continue, either because it&#39;s &quot;fun&quot; or because they gain some advantage in being the one-eyed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/on-robots-reality-pizza-and-repetitious-intelligence-briefings.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On robots, reality, pizza, and repetitious intelligence briefings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wwpics_015B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131443,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/describing-colors-to-a-blind-person.html","url_meta":{"origin":132364,"position":0},"title":"Describing colors to a blind person","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Sep-16 4:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool short tale of how, when he as a kid (and, at the time, blind), his family and friends conveyed to him what colors felt like.https:\/\/li.st\/ajesster\/how-my-friends-described-some-colors-to-me-when-i-couldn-t-see-2S35UflTxaoovQ0DaihhgD'They had me stand outside in the sun. 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