I have to say that even though my interest in basketball approaches nil, I still get a giggle out of stuff like "Spoiled Millionaires Theater."
In a tangent that may seem entirely unrelated--I read an SF book once where everyone got to target their news feed and set a percentage on their filter to let in X amount of stuff not on their preferences list (filters did things like prevent all liberal/conservative/green etc. viewpoints from coming through). Most people didn't, but the character the author wanted to present as smart and thoughtful had her filter set to allow 20% unwanted news items into her queue. That just sounded to me like an allegory on preconceptions. Makes you wonder about the theoretical AI they would have had to use to set the description tags, though.
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Date: 2007-02-03 04:00 pm (UTC)In a tangent that may seem entirely unrelated--I read an SF book once where everyone got to target their news feed and set a percentage on their filter to let in X amount of stuff not on their preferences list (filters did things like prevent all liberal/conservative/green etc. viewpoints from coming through). Most people didn't, but the character the author wanted to present as smart and thoughtful had her filter set to allow 20% unwanted news items into her queue. That just sounded to me like an allegory on preconceptions. Makes you wonder about the theoretical AI they would have had to use to set the description tags, though.