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Saint Sexburga wrote:
>> Best you stay away from complex machinery, then..
> 
>> Wheelbarrows come to mind...
> 
> Don't they always? And complex machinery - wall clock, CPU, or
> wheelbarrows - is not just money.
> 
> Wheelbarrows are the scarcest, and least 'renewable' resource any of
> us will ever have.
> 
> So we must adapt to what we have while we invent better wheelbarrows.
> 
> When wheelbarrows start to adapt to US, we should become very, very
> wary, 'coz they will have become smarter than we are, and they will
> also have become either certifiably insane to make the attempt or
> clever liars to fake it.
> 

If another wheelbarrow offers you candy, get your back to the wall quickly...