From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 17:45:58 MST
>Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:58:44 -0800
>From: spike66 <spike66@attbi.com>
>Subject: Re: I am the Google
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > Lately my car has been suffering from a few problems...
>Your car? You got yourself a drivers license! Way to
>go Eliezer!
> > I know absolutely nothing about cars...
>You know all you need, for you go on to say:
> > So I do what any Child of the Internet would do in this situation. I
> > say: "Check the fuel filter." The mechanic comes back. The
> > fuel filter is almost completely blocked.
> > Swap in a new fuel filter, drive away.
>So why stop at Googling up the answer and telling
>the mechanic? Fuel filters really are an eeeasy fix,
>ideal for those who never fiddle with any mechanical
>device more complicated than a cereal box.
>Get back on google, find a diagram of that 95 Ford
>Escort,
Better yet, get a copy of the service manual (or the Haynes
manual). You'll have at your fingertips anything you'd need to know about
your vehicle. And you'd be able to pass on nuggets of useful information
back into the net. "You take some out of the pool, you give some back to
the pool". True, there's much rubbish out there. But that's why you
develop "mind filters" for it.
Better yet, here is the link to the Haynes site http://www.haynes.co.uk
As Children of the Internet we are all siblings, therefore. Do you see
that we are your brothers?
>order the filter online, get under that
>hood and fix it your own self. You can do it. Swap
>out the air filter while you are under there. With
>Google you really don't need a mechanic for those
>easy common car maintenance jobs.
I'm with Spike on this one, and possibly (probably) because we are both
motorcyclists. You really do need to know this kind of stuff on two
wheels. And I've sent manys the exasperated post to forums berating riders
for not putting their repair/mainenance experiences online. Part lists,
tool lists, step-by-step illustrations, hints & tips etc. This kind of
thing makes these kinds of tasks so much easier. The more of this stuff on
the net, the more difficult it becomes to naught but understand that which
you didn't.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again;
I see and I remember,
I hear and I forget,
I do and I understand
-Chinese proverb
>The extropians group is another source of omniscience.
>Pose a good question here and someone either knows
>the answer or knows how to get to it.
>Google on! spike
>------------------------------
James...*Still a' googlin'*
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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