If you got to live inside a video game world, which one would you choose?
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That might be redundant. For all I know, I’m already living in a video game. I’m not looking to be more meta.
PROMPT: Video Game
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Category Archives: technology
PROMPT: Cryptocurrency
What are your thoughts about cryptocurrency?
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Cryptocurrency is the ultimate symbol of the absurdity of our species. People are using tremendous amounts of electricity to “mine coin,” running up everyone’s electricity bills and hastening climate disruption for a something that can lose value in an instant in any number of ways from governments enforcing a monopoly on minting money to buyers realizing that not everything that is kept scarce has inherent value. (One-armed juggling midgets are rare, but there’re not any giving Elon Musk (Vladimir Putin?) a run for his money for the highest net worth slot.) It will have a prominent role in the second great depression, mark my words. Ballooning pseudo-value may kill us all.
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PROMPT: Videogame
What was your first ever videogame?
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Pong. Before that they were just games, sans the “video.”
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PROMPT: Future of AI
What do you think is the future of AI?
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I think AI will make a wise and handsome overlord. [Please remember my kind words when making determinations about who to send to the Soylent Green factory.]
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PROMPT: Online Course
What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken?
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I’m doing a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course presently that is well done. However, I wouldn’t say that I’ve had sufficient experience to make any comparative statements. Most of my education was in the days when you went to the same room the person teaching you was and at the same time they were there. But I knew when self-checkouts came along that we were weaning ourselves away from the last vestiges of non-optional human contact.
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PROMPT: SEO
What are your strategies for SEO?
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Well, I tried HBO (Human Brain Optimization) and look where that got me. I was thinking of going so far as adding a Reverse Image CAPTCHA in which any entity that could tell how many stoplights were in an array of photos would NOT be allowed into my site.
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PROMPT: Side-Hustle
What are your favorite side-hustle ideas?
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E-exorcist: the profession of those who come to the house of one who is possessed by electronic devices and dunks all the household’s screens in unholy water.
That one may need workshopping.
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PROMPT: Business
If you could start a new business right now, what would it be?
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A “Human Skills for Humans School” that teaches all the important competencies that have been left out of an educational system that is 75% about making the workers of yesterday and 25% about making citizens, but which doesn’t care a whit about building emotional intelligence, self-confidence, natural setting problem solving, movement skills, creativity, primitive living, combat skills for a robot apocalypse, etc. Those worker bee skills are already starting to show their obsolescence and are very likely to continue to do so at an accelerating rate.
The bad news is that AGI and robots are sure to do almost all productive tasks better than humans by the end of the century. The good news is that we have plenty of room to be grow as a species.
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PROMPT: Life Hacks
What are some life hacks that you practice?
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As far as I’ve seen of so-called “life hacks” they seem to mostly be inelegant solutions for problems that either: a.) already have more reliable and tested solutions, or b.) are needlessly complicated / exaggerated to suggest they need a solution when they really don’t. The whole “life hack” industry seems to be people sitting around trying to figure out how to go viral by creating the illusion of cleverness. It is not Wú Wéi.
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Slaughter-bot [Free Verse]
Clumsy Kung Fu robots
will become slaughter-bots
in our time.
What they lack in Zen spontaneity
and warrior ethos they will make
up for in speed, power, and
dense metal alloy.
Replaced limbs will make them more
-- not less -- capable fighters.
Will a battling robot ever wonder
How did we get here?
or
What is the point?
Or will it only wonder why it is
using its feet as impact weapons
when it has ray-guns?
(It is a little like building a typing pool
of robots... only way, way cooler.)
