Hot new Einstein quote

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

What seems most un-Einstein-like to me is that this supposed "quote"
lacks an immediately-obvious semantic interpretation. It reads like
the Turd-Potty bullshit posted to Facebook: you know that it's
supposed to be a sophisticated, cerebral analysis destroying Obama's
fallacious mouthings, but it has no discernable meaning.

FWIW, I think that the reference to the overlap of technology with
humanity respects the dread development of self-awareness by machines,
a possibility known to be Einstein's greatest fear. And the
"generation of idiots" refers to the consequences of Ann Romney's
discarding of public education.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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