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PROMPT: Cryptocurrency

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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.

PROMPT: Life Philosophy

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If you had to sum up your life philosophy in one sentence, what would it be?

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No one understands what life, or this world, is well enough to be intolerant or angst-ridden.

PROMPT: A Few Recent Shots

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Share a few recent shots from your camera roll, no context needed.

PROMPT: Sentimental

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What’s one thing you own that holds deep sentimental value?

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When we got our household storage back after 12+ years abroad, I discovered all sorts of items with tremendous sentimental value that I’d forgotten had existed. That’s how sentimental I am.

PROMPT: Worst Travel Experience

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What’s the worst travel experience you’ve ever had?

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My “worst travel experience” is like my “worst sexual experience;” it still beats the hell out of sitting at home alone on the couch. (Also, worst travel experiences make the best travel stories — given enough distance in the rearview to see the humor.)

PROMPT: Travel Advice

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What’s one piece of travel advice you always follow?

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入乡随俗 — i.e. “enter the village, follow the customs.”

PROMPT: Videogame

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What was your first ever videogame?

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Pong. Before that they were just games, sans the “video.”

PROMPT: Personal Goals

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Do you set personal goals for yourself?

It’s better than having them set for me… and also better than having to set personnel goals.

PROMPT: Future of AI

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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.]

PROMPT: Absolute Worst

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Which book’s world would be the absolute worst to live in?

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Neither the Orwellian nor the Atwoodian dystopia (1984 nor The Handmaid’s Tale) is for me. (To live in… I enjoyed reading both. Strange thing, that is.)

(Don’t judge me that I didn’t include Huxley’s Brave New World with all its drugs and promiscuous sex.)