How to tell your educational system is not all that.

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How to tell your educational system is not all that.

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29 July 2020

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Culture

It was a Norwegian flag.

Sometime during my senior year of high school, for reasons beyond all imagining, I was asked to help teach a Sunday school class of small children at the church I was a part of in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. My being recruited into this role can only be interpreted as

In the 1983 movie War Games, starring Matthew Broderick, the climactic scene involves Broderick’s character trying to convince a computer, powered by artificial intelligence, to refrain from launching a thermo-nuclear war. Broderick’s solution to the problem involves teaching the computer the futility of some kinds of undertakings. He