“You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool.”
— WIDDERSHINS SMITH
(Thanks to Dave Morris)
Category Archives: Quotable & Notes
Three Things
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things– everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Quotable
“By populating the world with so many different minds, each with its own point of view, God gives us a suggestion of what it means to be omniscient.”
— Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson)
Quotable
“A chap like me could make himself pretty useful in a labour-camp.”
— 1984 by George Orwell
“Why are most people who are against abortion people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?”
— George Carlin
“Chatbots have personalities”
“It’s artificial, but these chatbots have personalities. I think people will become more attached, not necessarily to their physical devices, but to the behaviors that these devices have” — Gizmodo
The more I use the voice prompt feature of ChatGPT, the stronger the illusion I’m conversing with a…person. Sky (the ‘voice’ I chose) already seems more interesting than half of my contacts in meat space (remember that term?)