DAILY PHOTO: Trấn Quốc Pagoda
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Author Archives: B Gourley
PROMPT: Habit
Daily writing prompt
What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?
I poop. Surely, I would have exploded in my youth if I hadn’t developed the habit. I feel my quality of life as a human must be better than the quality of life of gut bacteria in wall-spattered fecal matter. At least I have the leisure and capacity to contemplate such things.
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DAILY PHOTO: Hanoi’s Train Street by Night
PROMPT: Searched for Online
Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
I ask AI what kind of economic system can work when machines / AI do virtually all productive tasks better than humans — such that humans can no longer sell their labor for money to buy goods and other services. (i.e. the backbone of economies as we’ve known them.) I ask because it’s an extremely important question whose answer is completely without precedent. Those who say it’ll be like a new, bigger, better Industrial Revolution are full of shit. It was not hard to imagine the work domain left to humans during the Industrial Revolution- unless you were a proper Luddite. When we hit the aforementioned inflection point, however distant it may or may not be, it will be an entirely different matter.
It’s a little like asking a real estate developer what will happen to you and your neighbors when they tear down your subdivision to build a golf course, but the AI is a little less defensive. When the AI is equally defensive, we’ll know we’re screwed.
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DAILY PHOTO: Shrine Near Ngoc Son Temple on a Rainy Morning
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Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]
clouds fill the valley:
a gauzy avalanche
in slow motion.
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Sun Tinged [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Garden of Dreams, Kathmandu
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“Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern” (A Fragment) by William Wordsworth [w/ Audio]
Thou strainest through the mountain fern,
A most exiguously thin
Burn.
For all thy foam, for all thy din,
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-
Burne!
Take then this quarto in thy fin
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,
The whole affair, outside and in,
Burn!
But save the true poetic kin,
The works of Mr. Robert Burn'
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-
Tern!
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PROMPT: TV Shows
Andy Griffith Show, Carol Burnett Show, Dick Van Dyke Show… wow, they were not creative with names in those days.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 