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04/14/2023: Summer's End
It’s hot today for the first time of the season, which makes it feel like the start of summer. Time to start stacking the sandbags against the end of summer blues. The sun is going down. This song came on shuffle. It’s from John Prine’s Tree of Forgiveness. Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the […]
04/08/2023: Chat GPT and checking yourself
When your words don’t land as you intend it can be because a) you were unclear b) the people listening misunderstood your point or c) some members of the audience are willfully misunderstanding what you say. I was recently asked about the Tennessee lawmakers kicked out of the body. So I asked Chat GPT to […]
04/01/2023: What's in the Indictment? A debate with Chat GPT
Here is an argument about the recent indictment of former President Trump: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted. The people who know what is in the indictment aren’t talking. The people who are talking don’t know what’s in the indictment. None of them do. It’s sealed. Nevertheless, a lot of time will be spent […]
04/01/2023: Chat GPT is terrible at poltiics
Question: The Manhattan district attorney has issued an indictment of Donald Trump but the facts are not known and will not be known for several days, how should that encourage or discourage a person from forming opinions about the indictment itself? As an AI language model, I cannot provide personal opinions, but I can offer […]
03/28/2023: See the gift, ease the burden.
A few things 51 years have taught me:
1. Mean people suck
2. It’s easy to be nice
3. Everyone has at least one gift and one burden.
4. The greater the gift the heavier the burden is to bear.
5. You have no idea what burdens the people around you bear so don’t judge them.— RandomWhiteGuy 📖 Heretic & Disheveled Misfit (@TheReelRandom) August 10, 2018
Everyone has at least one gift and one burden. It is hard to find the gift in some people. See the gift, ease the burden.
03/26/2023: Old note found: moving up the time of grace
Dr. Nadia Chaudhri died on October 5, 2021. She narrated her death from cancer on her Twitter feed. Every time I read her writing I thought about the grace on display. The lessons she was able to give us. I just found a note I wrote to myself after reading one of her entries: “move […]
03/25/2023: A satisfying GPT exchange
A lot of the coverage of change GPT has been about the learning and development of artificial intelligence. What I wonder is how we, as humans, are going to slowly learn and acculturate to the kinds of exchanges with ChatGPT and its cousins. What I’m thinking about is the psychological closeness that will accrue in […]
03/25/2023: In the days of easy poison
When people dropped dead for any variety of reasons, it was much easier to poison your enemies,and have your murder written off as just another one of those episodes where a person was dropping dead because people dropped dead all the time. This seems to have been what happened. In the case of. William Longespee […]