
i’ve never been terrified of anything, except a fox. i watched that episode of x-files that featured the chupacabra and then encountered a fox out in the wild–you can imagine this loss of suburban innocence if you think hard about it and use your imagination. now, a typical fox looks nothing like a mexican goatsucker (maybe if it was bulked up with cans of goya black beans and had bigger teeth) but it put the scare into me because i had only encountered the occasional groundhog and stray cat at night; back then you didn’t see too many bums around.
one of those stray cats used to come around a lot and i named it ‘sugar’ because it was stark white and that song fly was on the radio a lot, the one by that band sugar ray. and after it hung around for awhile (i would leave out bush’s baked beans in a tupperware container because i felt bad) it became part of the family. i renamed it ‘yeti’ because i thought sugar was too homoerotic but that’s for another post.

AI often gives unnecessarily verbose definitions of words. if it can’t handle that small task, then what else is it failing at?
Everything in the world requires more than just pattern recognition unless you want the worst possible experience.
The current incarnation of AI is just like a super neurodivergent person. Not sure what we need it for other than to take over jobs. But I’m sure it’ll go sentient any day now lol.
The weird thing about AI is that if some computer was a god and had all of human knowledge and history yet could think like a human, wouldn’t its first order of business be to not destroy humanity as a whole but the wealthy?
Even a high school dropout can figure out that Mexican laborers are more essential than [name of billionaire.]