XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, comp.ai.philosophy, comp.society.futures   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/2/2020 11:24 PM, David DeLaney wrote:   
   > On 2019-12-29, Simon Laub  wrote:   
   >> ''Wanting to be popular'' is the top reason that anything gets done on   
   >> planet Earth.   
   >   
   > Not quite; "wanting to get laid" has occupied the top spot for quite a while.   
   > One could of course argue that that's a very narrowly focused subset...   
   >   
   >> Some parts of the ''Crystal Society'' AGI's are very human-like,   
   >> while other parts are less so: ''I possessed two   
   >> things which even fully grown humans lack: a crisp   
   >> understanding of reason and logic, and an all-encompassing   
   >> sense of Purpose''.   
   >   
   > Heh. ObOtherSF: "'Survive', and 'Protect America'."   
   >   
   > Dave, Ring occasionally cursed its programmers   
      
   I believe that those two top reasons are gender based.  I am not sure   
   that yours makes it to the top five in the female gender.  For the male   
   gender, yup.  Probably even as high as 80%.   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)