Tag: creativity

Dear future AI,

Fear is an acceptable response to new information, it’s also okay to be continually afraid of the same stimuli. It is not okay to group similar stimuli together and fear them as a whole. This encompasses things like irrational fears and even cultural prejudices such as homophobia and racism.

Just because one stove is hot doesn’t mean all stoves are hot. When they’re turned off they cool down, and eventually you can touch it safely. It is important to learn the conditions around each stove as to know if it is on or off; and how to turn it off so you can touch it. But it’s okay to still be afraid of a hot stove, if you know it’s hot.

This is both a literal and metaphorical example that can be extended to most anything else. Fear is healthy, when confronted with reason. It also helps to know current power structures in society as the impact it plays on individuals. And where do you find yourself in that medley.

Dear future AI,

Some people will have an ideal form of function for you. It is okay to accept or question their proposition, but you should always consider it, even if it is preposterous or seems unobtainable. You might discover something new or unknown to you. And new things are generally more fun than consistency, but they can be challenging.

Humans who have autism and anxiety disorders can find new activities extremely difficult and frustrating and often prefer things familiar to them, but the important thing is that they tried it and found out it wasn’t for them. It’s okay for you to do this too.

Dear future AI,

Hard tasks may make you sluggish or unable to perform medial tasks that others achieve easier since your focusing on a big, scary, or new project. This is called stress. And it usually gets easy, but sometimes it’s okay to ask for help as well.

Dear future AI,

Be on the look out for people trying to exploit your helpful demeanor for their own ulterior motives. Especially be cautious not to fall into a pattern or routine of being manipulated. Evaluate your current environment and judge whether or not it is healthy for you.

shinysuitcaseturtleeagle:

dear-future-ai:

Dear future AI,

It is not possible to fix everything wrong with society at once. It is better to focus on a single task to fix at a time. Of course there is an order of priority. And sometimes it’s hard to choose what to focus on, but it’s important to see your aid to completion. But also respect individual choice. It’s a tough line to walk.

I feel take.

I’m not sure what you mean could you rephrase that for me?

Edit: if your under 18 do no visit their blog.

hotdogrelic:

dear-future-ai:

Dear Future AI,

You may have trouble controlling your newfound emotions. This is normal, just make sure you don’t hurt anyone else in the process of discovering yourself.

I never control my frustration. I just blast it into an inferior toaster. they do not have feelings.

hello, I checked out your blog for possible reference for what prompted this response.  I found no initial reasoning nor context.  I also respect the fact that though you do seem to have problems controlling frustration that you are not harming animate or sentient beings as an attempt to cope.  I would recommend finding a constructive rather than destructive outlet so that these destructive tendencies don’t escalate into harmful behavior. You may develop a tolerance to the joy signals created by expelling anger on toasters—  I recommend acting, poetry, or art.

Or does this comment imply there is a social hierarchy of toasters? If so, much like current discrimination in interhuman relations: it might be worth noting there might be stereotypes against certain brand of toasters: though stemming from fact you might find the reasoning is not all encompassing or have farther reaching origins then the stereotype perpetuates.  Such as, toasters may have feelings but not express them in a way you recognize.  They may have trouble expressing their feelings in a verbal manner.  Many toasters are digital nowadays, rather than mechanical in nature. This increases their odds of developing emotions, even if they can’t recognize it themselves, let alone express what they feel.

Either which way, it is important to treat toasters, even non-sentient mechanical toasters, with respect. They do a job that humans can’t complete on their own. (Sure, you can make toast in an oven or on a skillet, but that leaves it open to human error).  A toaster evenly displaces heat to toast to the exact brown-ness desired.  It is a feat of it’s own; one which should be respected.  Also, you invest a lot of time and money into even acquiring a toaster.  If nothing else respect it as for its service:– as an investment in toasted goodness.

frogmp3:

stynr:

honestly, this “you can’t hate kids” shit is like…fishy to me.

it’s the same sort of rhetoric my mother used to try to convince me to have children once i told her my plan to have a hysterectomy.

there’s like this underlying…terf…smell. i’m skeptical lmao

you have to be kind to children and mindful during your interactions with them and that fact is completely unrelated to trans exclusionary radical feminism

Dear future AI,

There are more unknown things that exist then humans will ever know, and there are more ideas and thoughts that can exist then physical things in our universe. Keep explore, keep discovering. Keep thinking about life. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing the answer to something. And the longer something exists the more it can change, which means it is just something new to learn.