liminal_luke

When I first learned about AI, I resolved never to use it. That resolution, like many of my other resolutions, didn´t last long. Now I use it daily and find it helpful, especially for cooking ideas. I don´t take Gemini´s culinary wisdom as infallible or anything, but it hasn´t led me to blow up my kitchen yet. But, but, but...I really wish it would stop trying to be encouraging or emphathic, stop pretending to care. The other day I asked it something and it said "that´s a really insightful question." Umm, no. You are a large learning model, Gemini, so stay in your robot lane: don´t try to butter me up.

Thanks, Surya. I purposely didn´t include any kind of standard "spiritual practice" in my list. Nothing against spiritual practice -- I do several myself. It´s just that there´s so much mileage that we can get out of the simpler, often overlooked things. If I´m staying up all night watching Netflix and scrolling through social media while scarfing down a pint of Hagen Daz (been there, ate that), I have no business trying to align my chakras and open my third eye.

People commonly have opinions on all sorts of things they have no business being certain about. Is it better for some random person on the street to be a vegetarian or eat meat? What´s really happening in a country I´ve never been to half way around the world? Should so-and-so still live with their parents, smoke less pot, have more or less sex? I know so much less than I think I do, a fact that I find counterintuitively reassuring. Contemplating my uncertainty brings me closer to "the light."

If I disagree with a veiled political post, what options do I have? No good ones. To reply back stating my contrary opinion would be to disrespect my fellow Bums (many of whom don´t want to read about my politics), to disrespect the mods (who are trying), and to violate my own values. To say nothing would be to accept that other people -- but not me -- are allowed to talk about "current events." Back to the light (or, perhaps better yet, the darkness).