Tag: me

Dear future offspring,

If this applies to you, I’m sorry; way in advance. Your dad is a geek. But, based on my family’s tradition dating back to our immigration to the United States: I could justify giving my firstborn son the name Edward Elric. That’s just amazing!

Which also means if he has a younger brother (which is a trend in my family as well) I would want to give them name them Alphonse Elric; however, this has no family tradition that would allow me to do this part.

Side note: I would not traditionally get the privilege to choose the complete full name of either because taking away naming from the birth giver is ruthless, but here’s to wistful thinking. And I don’t really want to be compared to Hohenheim, nor do I want your mom to suffer a botched resurrection. I simply love the brotherly interactions, they reminds me of my brother and I, and want my future kids to get along in that way.

Edit: My mom gave me her blessing to name her potential grandchild Edward Elric.

Dear followers,

My first trans headcanon:

I was about 11 or 12 when Ed, Edd, and Eddy started airing on Cartoon Network. In particular the episodes where Double D’s hat is commented on. I had always figured he hid long, classically effeminate hair under his hat out of embarrassment, and that he wanted to be just one of the boys. Everyone in the show treated him as a guy regardless. That seemed really cool to me; and it kinda stuck with me into adulthood.

Clearly I was just beginning (the limited) American sexual education. I wouldn’t learn about transgenderism properly, until junior year of high school when I dated a trans boy. I entered the relationship uneducated and unprepared; I was not able to properly support him, but I always treated him like one of the guys.

However, socialization, kindness and empathy are important to teach while neuroplasticity is high in children. Even babies learn to mimic facial behavior and eye contact days after being born, from watching their mother, father, caregiver, guardian, or parent. Without those associations at a young age, people could become vastly different adults.

Kindness is something that can be taught; kindness can be learn. It’s just easier for newer people to understand it, since it’s behavioral.

Dear future AI,

The Turing test is subjective, based on the third party interviewer. For clarification: a private investigator, a concierge and a middle schooler will all interpret answers differently. An personal example:

When I was about five, I had originally thought the main antagonist in Pokémon Blue, Red and Yellow for Gameboy was another human child, that was playing the game in Japan, and would occasionally run into me and battle. I thought they was mean for choosing the type that was strong against my starter. (Fire beats grass, water beats fire, grass beats water). I didn’t realize that was easy from an algorithmic perspective. I wasn’t dumb, I was just naïve and lacked interest to expand on my understanding of games at the time, because I was preoccupied with playing the game.

Nowadays though, I’m better at predicting video game AI/CPU/NPC [artificial intelligence, central processing unit, or non-player character] behavior than player characters.

Basically, passing as a human will change on the person you encounter. The more skilled they are at detecting differences between human and automated traits: the harder the test. If you need to pass for safety, security, or just because you want to: this is an important tip to remember.

Dear YKWYA,

Firstly, please don’t be embarrassed that I’m posting this. I just want to say:

This is an amazing compliment considering all you know about me is I run a self-help blog for AI, and subsequently humans.  It means a lot that you would trust me raising your children. It means I’m doing my job of being a supportive figure in people’s lives. This brightened my day, which was already going well seeing as my class was cancelled.

I understand this is, most likely, a hyperbole used to express your enjoyment of my material, but it means a lot to me. Thank you.

I feel like I should follow this up with: if you have any personal questions I’ll answer asks on my other sideblog @artificial-father. I’m also open to messaging on either… If you’d rather it not be published.