tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

I am no Luddite. But I for one would appreciate full disclosure about who's written the content you shared with me: was it an #AI assistant, or you yourself?

Let's find some convention about that and develop a new etiquette. Maybe some keyword at the end, a meaningful glyph at the beginning?

I find those “warm” and “friendly” and “witty” messages creepy, fake and dishonest if it wasn't the (alleged) author choosing all the words themselves. Are you really “so excited” to talk to me, and “really impressed” by the material?

Think auto birthday congrats on social media, or pre-cooked new-role congrats on LinkedIn, only to the n-th power. It's sad.

Let's call it #AItiquette.

/human

My dream in life is receiving a certified letter from the city council of some distant city, saying:

“You know you were around here for three days, during your holidays, one year ago? And you know that Saturday evening you parked for six hours and three minutes in this or that street? Well, turns out you have a parking ticket pending, plus interests. And we know there's no way you can prove TODAY that you used the parking meter. HAHAHA. You don't even remember having parked there! So, PAY!! SUBMIT!! HAHAHA!!”

And then I go to my folders, find the one for that year and month, produce the parking meter receipt that I meticulously saved (in perfect state), implacably nullifying that miserable attack against the very core of my being and emerging triumphant and glorious against all odds.

#Remix over a rehash of Dave Brubeck's “Take 5” video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs

#jazz #music

Meanwhile, #ChatGPT (3.5) on #secular #ethics:

One more, also very recent:

> _“You can't have a moral order without some fundamental metaphysical premises.”_

— [Mary Harrington](https://youtu.be/jWgKKVPD-8s?t=127)

@ImperfectIdea, WDYT?

> _“The Supreme Court has upheld California #Proposition12 — the nation’s strongest farm #AnimalWelfare law—and made clear that preventing #AnimalCruelty and protecting public health are core functions of our state governments. […] We won’t stop fighting until the pork industry ends its cruel, reckless practice of confining mother pigs in cages so small they can’t even turn around. It’s astonishing that pork industry leaders would waste so much time and money on fighting this commonsense step to prevent products of relentless, unbearable animal suffering from being sold.”_

— [The Humane Society of the United States](https://www.humanesociety.org/news/victory-supreme-court-upholds-california-proposition-12)

#Renfe, certamen de relatos cortos:

> _«No será admitida ninguna obra con FALTAS DE ORTOGRAFÍA [sic] o escritas [sic] íntegramente en MAYÚSCULAS [sic].»_

🤦‍♂️

This collection of epigrams by #MorganHousel is golden, and it summarises so well my own thinking in some areas, like #philosophy, #economics:

https://collabfund.com/blog/thoughts/

#Vita

It's 2023 and I'm astonished that so many intelligent religious people still make the bogus argument “without a #god there is no #morality” (or priorities, or goals).

Just this last week, on the #Triggernometry #podcast:

> _“Even the things you believe in, only make sense if there's a God. The only leap of faith I ever took was to say: **‘it's better to give a beggar bread than it is to torture a child to death’. You can't make that case without God.** That case, once you believe that, you believe in God.”_

— [Andrew Klavan](https://youtu.be/psOBFVzfF2E?t=3803)

> _“As Western civilization becomes increasingly individualistic and anti-religious, […] that bleeds over into a secular world that was living off sort of the fumes of a religious society. But as those fumes dissipate, **you end up with: ‘what do I do this morning?’ ‘how do I get up?’ ‘what is the moral obligation?’ ‘what's in it for me?’ […] What makes you do the thing you don't want to do?** […] It's three o'clock in the morning, your kid took a dump and now you have to change the diaper: what makes you get up, as opposed to just turning over and saying: ‘you deal with it, I'm going back to sleep’?”_

— [Ben Shapiro](https://youtu.be/fGvXdbFh1EE?t=465)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31212