I made several attempts to try to get it to generate something more esoteric. Here is a story about a computer falling in love with a potato chip who becomes a sentient meth addict.
life + death = mortality
life - death = lifestyle
drug + time = occasion
drug - time = narcotic
art + artist + money = creativity
art + artist - money = muse
happiness + politics = contentment
happiness + art = gladness
happiness + money = joy
happiness + love = joy
is pretty good IMO, it is a nice blend of the concepts in an intuitive manner. I don’t really get
drug + time = occasion
But
drug - time = narcotic
Is kind of interesting; one definition of narcotic is
> a drug (such as opium or morphine) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, coma, or convulsions
Does the system you’re querying ‘get it’? From the answers it doesn’t seem to understand these words or their relations. Once in a while it’ll hit on something that seems to make sense.
Having kids is an excellent solution to this feeling.
Besides occupying any time you used to have for unnecessary work, they have an uncanny ability to remind you just how little you actually control.
However you get to the end of the OCD tunnel, the journey is often very worthwhile.
I really enjoyed this. I try to run my team similarly.
Where I disagree slightly is vendors. If the need filled by the vendor is well-defined and low-complexity, sure, I'll go for it. Otherwise, I'm doing it in-house nine times out of ten.
Where this starts to get tricky is when some worthy competitors emerge, utilizing your foundation to scale quicker and more effectively. Then you might wish you had hired more people earlier. But overall, I think starting from this perspective is a lot safer than the opposite.
> It did not reduce student drug use. In face, it backfired and taught kids about interesting drugs that they probably wouldn't have found learned about otherwise.
I will never forget the day in fifth grade when a DARE representative came to our class with a briefcase full of samples of esoteric (to me at least) drugs. The way they were presented made them extremely appealing to me, similar to perusing the choices at a high-end candy store. I don't know for sure if this had any effect on me but I strongly suspect that it did.
The intellectual pursuit of empathy often results in individuals who know what empathy should look like and are good at faking it.
Real empathy requires you to recognize and process your emotions differently. This can be learned over time but usually not by directly attacking the problem.
This is just based on my own experiences.
But I can imagine this is frustrating for you and it seems like you’re already doing the hard work of recognizing there’s an issue. Good luck to you.
I have a bigger problem with how IP law is written and enforced than the actual notion of IP law. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that IP should enjoy some protections, however, the current enforcements are in many cases downright abusive to consumers and smaller creators alike.
What about the use of taxpayer funds to enforce ownership of ideas? That seems like putting wrong incentives in place. If the state effectively enforces ownership of ideas, then the cost of enforcement is paid by almost nobody who benefits from that enforcement. It's going to distort markets big time.
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