PROMPT: Ideal Home

Daily writing prompt
What does your ideal home look like?

Big enough to live in it; small enough not to live for it.

Preferably, it teleports on a regular basis, so I don’t have to — you know— live in one place for the rest of my life.

DAILY PHOTO: Ban Gioc Waterfall

DAILY PHOTO: Old Town Temple, Cao Bang

DAILY PHOTO: Cao Bang Sunrise

PROMPT: Feeling

Daily writing prompt
How are you feeling right now?

Post-breakfast satiety with a side of caffeine rush.

DAILY PHOTO: Trấn Quốc Pagoda

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.

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.