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Category: Micro
The Best Subway Take
Here it is, I found it!
We Were Promised Death
AI developers are so sure their products are going to destroy humanity in the next few years, when this could all be solved with better programming and more guardrails. Isaac Asimov attempted to solve this problem long ago, and his solution is still one of the best in popular imagination.
I have no respect for anyone building a bomb as fast and as recklessly as they can, poisoning everything on Earth, just because there are a lot of stories where the human race is destroyed by a bomb. Those stories don’t have to dictate our future, just because the developers can’t imagine a safe solution (or one where we don’t have the bomb at all).
Commute Thought
The cognitive dissonance of having the personalized license plate “JEDI” and a “Support The Troops” bumper sticker.
Cue the Stevie Wonder!
Are you superstitious?
I’m not always heavily superstitious, but I do believe in things like ghosts and magic. From where I stand, it makes more sense to treat supernatural things with respect and not mess with them lightly so they don’t wreak havoc on your life.
Adding my Tumblr
I started a new mini-blog on Tumblr, if anyone who reads this would like to follow me there. It’s mainly for smaller musings, the sort of thing I might have put on Twitter 10 years ago.
Building Lore Around A Song
I really believe this song is talking about forming a relationship with someone you meet online, who ends up ghosting. I might be reading into it, but my experience of chatting with people in old AOL, Yahoo, and especially IRC chat rooms gets pinged pretty hard at some of these lines.
My inspiration for 2024
Oh HELL No
If you want to check out another Science Saru project after watching the Scott Pilgrim anime, Devilman Crybaby is NOT a good choice! It may be visually inventive, but it’s got none of the charming aspects SP is famous for. It’s much too bleak and nihilistic.
Instead, I’d recommend The Night is Short, Walk On Girl or, even more heartily, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! They’re zany and a bit irreverent, there are characters with ridiculous personalities and insecurities, and relationships (romantic and platonic) play out in all their dysfunctional glory. Why go for inescapable darkness or a demon orgy when you can experience a 10-minute improvised musical declaration of love or watch a bunch of friends brainstorm a new fantasy world around them?
What if…
If I had the power to do it, I would make Israel/Palestine the first anarchist state established in the new millennium. No authorities, everyone has to work together to take care of the land and each other. Let the people who love and value the land so much come together and work out a solution that honors everyone.
Except those fucking Christian Zionists. They can hurry up and go to Hell where they belong.
