The lesson of Stanford isn't that any random human being is capable of descending into sadism and tyranny.
Nothing but the worst is to be expected from any random human encounter.
And its vignettes of random human experience — a couple dancing gravely in each other's arms, a woman laughing hysterically, a knife-wielding man silently stalking through a crowd — occasionally evoke Pina Bausch's tragicomic dance epics.
There are long, sublime descriptions of what it is like to experience the awakening of spring after a Nordic winter; of how a regular day elapses in Stockholm (he patiently watches the crowds coming and going); of the random human activity in a Norwegian airport; of the experience of reading Adorno; of buying fish at the market with his grandmother, when he was a boy.
The bots are connected with random human evaluators, and both are given the text of a recent news or Wikipedia article and can discuss it for as long as they like.
Comparing five disruption strategies (e.g., random, human capital, degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and human capital and degree centrality) and three recovery mechanisms (e.g., random, preference by social distance or degree centrality), networks were found to exhibit greater density, and thus more resiliency, after attacks targeting those with the most human capital.
Another example -- there is a random human army outpost in the middle of the woods that seems friendly enough -- that is, until you enter.
"Would brides rather work with someone who has the same taste as Beyonce, or some random human being?" Alexandra hopes for at least one other perk: She wants Blue Ivy to host Blue Ivy's first birthday party.
Aliens deciding whether to demolish the Earth give one random human ultimate power, and will decide the planet's fate based on whether his decisions are good or evil.
"The Feels" deals directly with the topic of sex or sexuality, but there are some episodes about family, friends, general neuroses and random human moments in our day-to-day lives (the first episode, "Wet," is all about Charlie dealing with his thinning hair). .
