Nathan Myhrvold writes:
This photo, from a New York Times article, suggests that you just might be a Japanese robot! In robot form you don’t need glasses. …
Considering Dubner’s ability to spend so much time listening to economists, we are surprised it took so long to figure this out.
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IS Dubner a Robot?
1. YES , HE IS.
2. GO TO 5..
3. OR SUBROUTINE
4. NO, HE IS NOT.
5. END.
Stephen,
I hope you are sitting down.
You remember that one night long ago in the Yokohama Robot bar with m?
Well, Congratulations Dubner-san! This is your long lost metal Japanese Robot Son!
….btw the sponge failed.
Are you getting a part of the profits from sales of the robot?
That’s scary – a robot economist can have one hand, and the other hand, and a third hand, and a fourth….
I don’t know why this classic George Carlin performance came to mind when I read this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6AZvtUEQS0
Maybe it’s the poetic rhyme of modern life and its conflicting views about man and machine or our hopes and fears about technology giving rise to anxiety.
Does he often fail to complete CAPTCHAs correctly?