Once you understand something and have the ability to change it, both "changing it" and "not changing it" are "playing god".

Remember that you're allowed to ask "how would I feel if that happened to me?" before the thing actually happens to you.

Just realized I'm the only closely related person my mom met in her life, which is quite strange to think about.

1. My mom was adopted
2. I am her only child
3. I don't have kids

Correctly diagnosed with not actually having anything to say.

Now what?

I need to be constrained. Too many options, too many possibilities, paralyzed with choice and infinite branching paths.

Occasionally I am reminded that NDT named his book directly after one of the single most important disseminations of information ever written: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius. Just incredible hubris.

Is there data on how much the uncanny valley is innate vs learned? How much is your "canny" baseline determined by the humans you see in development? Can AI-generated faces being decoupled from reality make kids raised on AI content find real faces "uncanny"?

Surely something non-self can become part of an already established self. Why isn't the whispering earring a potential new cognitive layer to my mind? Why is its "separateness" taken as fact?

Forgot to log in to Codex CLI and get my credits before ChatGPT pro expired today. Quite tragic.

Performatively walking around with this sticking out of my back pocket wearing this hat.