{"id":1472,"date":"2009-05-22T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:30:31","slug":"one-more-reason-skynet-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/one-more-reason-skynet-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"One more reason Skynet won&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I needed to photocopy multiple copies of a manuscript that included blank pages. The helpful photocopier saw that I was trying to copy blank pages and concluded I obviously didn&#8217;t really want to do that, so left the blank pages out. Result: pagination all mixed up in the multiple copies.<\/p>\n<p>I had to copy another manuscript. This time I was cleverer. I wrote BLANK in large, friendly letters on the blank page. The copier still couldn&#8217;t quite believe I wanted to waste valuable time, paper and toner on a page with BLANK scrawled on it and so again left the blanks out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please will machines stop trying to be helpful<\/em>.\u00a0It really doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I needed to photocopy multiple copies of a manuscript that included blank pages. The helpful photocopier saw that I was trying to copy blank pages and concluded I obviously didn&#8217;t really want to do that, so left the blank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/one-more-reason-skynet-wont-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[145,292],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","category-pensees","tag-rant","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}