Lying

Because this is what I woke up thinking about at 6:30am this morning.

If you are a logical person (Spock) or a Buddhist monk, you don't lie. Not because it's part of some creed, but because it's not needed. Or do they? I mean, if a monk sees that you are about to make a mistake, but then leaves you to your own demise so that you will learn and grow, has he lied by omitting the knowledge that he knows?

I agree with one aspect of Terminator 3 - the T-850 in that movie lies to John Conner in order to complete his mission. This highly infallibly logical machine lies, which seemingly counteracts with my first statement.

You know V.I.K.I. lied (didn't tell the whole truth) as well in I, Robot in order to complete her mission.

Lackadaisical Conclusion, based no less on movie mythology (it's too early in the morning for me to make any real sense of these bits of notes):

It's strange that when you leave a logical someone to carry out their own will they find lying to be a means to an end. Lying is a natural course for [semi] logical beings.

Ergo, lying is something I wouldn't have to program into a computer. If an AI program was created correctly, the ability to lie will emerge on its own, just as the ability to describe "feelings" will also emerge on its own.

...Oh, I haven't told you my philosophy on feelings? That will have to be a discussion for another day.

Real Desks

Our company owner was planning to refurbish our new office with new desks.

He got us four of these with the promise that this was just the beginning of his refurbishing plan:
Sauder Officeport Collection Executive Desk, Maple 400415
(The funny part was that on the outside of the box it gave the dimensions - with the depth only being 9.5" - I recalculated it from the given cm and it's a normal sized desk, but that was still an interesting quip.)


I talked with him and told him that executive desks are for executives. We are paper pushers and need more workspace.

We made a deal and I went shopping with approximately the same budget as what he spent on these desks. I found these:
Realspace Soho™ Broadstreet Contoured U-Shaped Desk
with detachable penis (sorry, couldn't resist), standalone third U piece


I also talked him into letting me get the optional hutch for each desk:


I can't wait for them to arrive. :)