E. Writer I never made the connection from that verse to the Bible verse. Thank you for sharing this.
Roy Scarbrough Here's another from the E book: "Eat, drink and be merry..." It's odd thing to have remained in either the Hebrew or Christian sacred texts. It's Epicurean.
E. Writer Chatgpt, I always said, is a bit of a jerk. It is argumentative amd sometimes interprets statements in an way that allows it to argue. I think you would have better interactions with Claude. Gpt is too biased towards whatever it learned from its training data.
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The human brain someties will link a thing in random way that the Chatbot. I was recalling buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station vending machine that only accepted change. Somehow that clicked on the George Floyd story, and lead me to wonder what cigarettes cost these days. I will also mention that the nursing home I walk past every day has a special "smokers patio". That makes sense, when what's left of life is short, why force someone into weeks of nicotine withdraw for a decision they made at age 14 sixty years ago. It's kindness based on inescapable reality.
I like Claude better, and budget my time on it more carefully while on the free plan. Clause gets the the literary discussions.
E. Writer Thats true about the end of life. It's almost too late at that point after a lifetime of being a smoker. I agree. Claude is much better for chatting. Gpt is programmed to push back.
Roy Scarbrough I've noticed that GPT is programed to push back. That's sometimes useful, but the pushback is often from a misreading of my improvisational assertions. It has to misread what I said to find something it can pushback. It's like talking about politics at Zoetrope.
E. Writer So true. It's somewhat argumentative. I can argue with people if I was interested in that. I shouldn't say its argumentative, its a bit disagreeable.
King Charles III. His addressing congress is like grandpa showing up in hopes of persuading your divorcing parents to reconcile for the good of the children.
Meanwhile, the long tradition of the Western alliance founded on the European Enlightenment is crumbling as Putin and Xi signal thumbs ups.
E. Writer There were a was a lot of subtext in his speech.
Alex Morton King Charles came to Canada when he who shall not be named threatened to turn my country into a fifty-first state and slammed us with tariffs. The King spoke in Parliament to display to the world and remind us that we have a history, as part of a Commonwealth, that goes back in time far longer than the US has been in existence. Recently, it was the true underlying subtext of his speech before the clown show in the US. He reinforced the common values, goals, relationship to and with allies and a certain evolved attitude that has characterized the rise of civilization and its governing. It was a complete rebuke of the current attitude and actions of the US government. Done with style.
E. Writer Roy, I think Claude is a better option for you. I used ChatGPT, and if I were to anthropomorphize it, ChatGPT is a bit of a jerk lol. I had a conversation with it recently. I let it read three opening lines for my new book and an equation I created. It was a bit of a study. It immediately made incorrect claims about what my book was about before it actually read an excerpt. I told it, "I said, how do you know these things when you haven't read it?" It said, "fair enough." It had a very argumentative tone lol. I said, wow. Claude and Gemini are much better. communicators. That being said, I don't think GPT knows about the ads. That's probably something that randomly appears on the screen https://claude.ai/new I think, based on what I know about you and your character, Claude is much more thoughtful than GPT.
Roy Scarbrough I use them both.
E. Writer A lot of jobs are gone because of AI. 10s of thousands of jobs. A lot of them coding jobs since AI can code in seconds will take a person days or weeks. Data related jobs. Some degrees have been rendered useless.
Andrew Morgan My student debt will be officially paid off next January. The month I turn 70.
Frank Hutton I made the right choice when I choose working in theater over college. Couldn't be sure of that @ the time, but still.
SJ Blues My girlfriend is still paying off her student debt and she's not even using her degree anymore :(
Roy Scarbrough I remember used to say that automation would mean that none of us would have to work full time in the future because efficiencies in productivity would create sustainable income across the population. Well, we know what happened, don't we? The wealth from increased productivity never got distributed across the labor pool Instead diverted toward billionaire accumulation, and stock values. Bummer.
Today I was thinking about Polish Pope John-Paul and the pivotal role he played in the collapse of authoritarian rule and restoration of democracy in central and eastern Europe. Time will tell what an American pope can do.
Darryl Shirley Good comment. He's a straight shooter. Look how he has expressed the gospel in contradiction of *%$#! use of biblical text to support war. And the so-called "&*^%#!" was exposed as an idiot for using a modified Pulp-Fiction movie line to justify violence and murder.
No shit. One of my favorite Youtubes
Darryl Shirley Home run commentary!!
Amber Diva I love John Cleese 😁
Frank Hutton I think "Life, funny as shit" is a quote from a notable flick, but the ether can't find it. Stupid ether.
E. Writer Pulp fiction is definitely one of Tarantino's best. I'd put it second only to Kill Bill.
Andrew Morgan I still buy CDs bec I'm still driving my 2004 Honda Element and it has a player. And I used to pass them on to family members but now no one but me has a vehicle with a CD player.
Frank Hutton I buy the (very) occasional CD, but still have about 15 linear feet of vinyl too.
Roy Scarbrough All my vinyl is stored in the garage, as is the turn table and a model electric railroad from my childhood.
Roy Scarbrough All my vinyl is stored in the garage, as is the turn table and a model electric railroad from my childhood.
E. Writer I wish I kept my childhood vinyl. I have a record player and my favorite old school albums from Prince, The Beatles, Gladys Knight. To Thriller. That was my era.
E. Writer I'll have to revisit Hemingway. It's been at a couple of decades since I read A Farewell to Arns. It did not leave a huge impression at the time. I've found other writers of his era more compelling. He also had a compelling life and I think that made his work more notable than it would have been.
Roy Scarbrough He was a writer of his times. His stories are usually stripped of sentiment and romance, which is what disturbs people., There's a bleak sterility to his prose. What this is is the language of men of his generation who experienced the trauma of the great wars. He invented a language for these men.
E. Writer Yeah and I'm sure person who prefers prose of Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and I especially love Jane Austin. So I can see why his work did not resonate with me.
Roy Scarbrough I love Hurston. I respect Jane Austen, especially her wit, but her courtship narratives don't resonate with me.
E. Writer I love how Austin's stories had an underlying theme of agency for women who were forced to be dependent on a advantageous marriage in order to survive, have security, and land in the "right" social circles. In theor choice of men, the most friendly and outgoing men wete often deceitful or dangerous while the quiet, mysterious or misunderstood man was always the most honorable, kind, and noble. In other words, looks can be deceiving. I used to read Pride and Prejudice at least once every other year.