I tried to tell her to take a load off, but I haven’t heard back.

sure, but that didn’t answer my question

cash is disgustingly filthy and basically only good for criminal transactions

As waitress, I hate dealing with it — making change takes a lot of time and breals up the flow of service. At a good restaurant the hand sinks are placed well enough that washing hands after is pretty seamless, but I’ve worked at shops where I had to run all the way back the the dish pit after every cash transaction. And the worst part is the knowing winks like “I know you prefer cash” with the implication I’m a tax cheat. Fuck you, asshole! You’re just making more work for me! Now I have to log this myself and report it separately from my W-2s.

Who’s reading it? The AIs, as training data? The AIs, as prompts? The AI engineers? The end users?

You’ve put too much into quippiness and not enough into clarity.

I conceive of myself as a decision-making process. I’m not my body and I’m not my mind and I’m not my feelings, but at the same time I am not myself without those things; they are the filters that give the (imperfect) inputs to my decisions and execute the (imperfect) outputs of those decisions, and with different filters I would make different decisions.

The above is a very Stoic way of viewing the situation, and you’re welcome to read more.

To address your own situation, you seem to be concerned with with what I’ll call “authenticity”: are these my real feelings, is this how I really think. Don’t be. Authenticity is a trap. Human nature is kinda shitty. You can be better than it. That’s not an act or a fake; that’s ethics.

Whether you feel depressed because the world sucks or the world seems to suck because you’re medically depressed, the answers are the same: Make the world better, make yourself better (by medication if necessary). It’s okay to have something wrong with you; we all do. But you gotta try to make it better. If I don’t wear my glasses to correct my nearsightedness, that doesn’t make me noble, just impaired. But at the same time, it may seem that the world outside my window is blurry not because I forgot my glasses, but because I need to wash the window. Sometimes one or another is enough, sometimes you need to do both.

Chellenging: Getting their attention that long.

Rewarding: Getting their attention that long.

I joke a little, but seriously, homes are distracting. It’s where all the videogames, food, siblings and windows are.

But at the same time, it’s rewarding to spend that time with them; and to provide for them education on things that the public school can’t or won’t teach them, like civics, advanced mathematics, Native American history, and extra art.

It’s sad I have to include this caveat, but I want to make clear that I’m not advocating for homeschooling as a replacement for public school, but as an addition or complement to it.

It’s not the twenty-somethings trying to date older folks that are the problem, it’s old creepers trying to date twenty-somethings that are the problem.

It’s already plural, like pants.

To answer your questions in order:

• Because it’s being used in unethical ways.

• Yes.

• Yes.

• AI is a field of Computer Science dealing with machine learning and decision-making.

• Some of them, no doubt.

• No, because any coherent conception of free will in a deterministic universe must leave room for fully detrministic decision-making.

cold water

No, I rinse them after hand-washing them.

yes, it’s disgusting

“Do you have any sugar?”

I offered you sugar and cream when you ordered the coffee, and you just said “cream”. This is on you.

Is there a reason to treat them differently then any other pedophile?

If any hostages accept that money they become accomplices.

Have you tried complaining? It’s amazing. One of my favorite activities.

Some corporations are so predatory that it’s a moral good to harm them in any way we can, including theft.

The most memorable game I’ll never play again.

Mow mow mow mrooooooaaaaaa

I haven’t found anything better than Jerboa. To me, the only flaw is that it will never, ever support piefed.

It’s the closest to the RIF experience.