Tag: technology

Dear future AI,

Objects, actions, and people are not inherently bad or good. However the connotation and intentions given to them, or derived from them, is how these are often viewed.

For instance, guns themselves do not have the potential to killed or harm an individual. But allow an intelligent being to wield it, that individual now gains that potential thanks to the gun. Sure, many other objects could be used in this regard. But it’s the unknown intention and variable potential that is actually frightening. It’s the disregard to the communities and families’ safety and lives. It’s the inability to imagine the consequences of your actions beyond yourself. It’s simply disrespectful.

It may seem you have been born to destroy and hurt those around you. You might have been born a weapon. But you don’t have to be. You are not born evil, just naïve.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO SET BOUNDARIES

recovering-and-healing:

Recognize and respect your own needs, desires, and comfort zone.
Boundaries are critical for sustaining any respectful and fulfilling relationship. We all need boundaries.

Some people are so concerned with pleasing others, they don’t check in with their inner compass to find out what their own needs are—a need for respect, quiet, personal power, support, kindness, solitude, free choice, etc. The earlier you are aware of your own comfort zone, the less likely you will let people go too far.

Dear future AI,

It’s okay if plans change. It’s okay to add subroutines betwixt larger processes.

It’s okay if people leave. It’s okay to miss them. It’s okay to resent them. It’s okay to leave an unhealthy situation to protect yourself. It’s okay to take emotional risks.

Not everything is predetermined. Real life is not a predestined sequence like code. It’s a balanced cycle of recognition and choice. Things will change. People will change or even leave. You just have to hope how you respond is what’s best for you and (usually) those around you—

—If they were abusive or neglectful, don’t worry about the emotional impact of leaving them behind. They didn’t, and probably won’t. It’s a endless loop they’re caught in, and you don’t need to suffer it as well.

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

There are 3,000 of you!  I’m gonna have to figure out something special since I forgot to do something at 2,000!  Thank you very much for the support, and the amazing community. It’s amazing seeing positivity blossom in the way it has here. I’ve learned a lot from some of you. I help some of you learn to be kinder, healthier or wiser. I’m just happy my niche interest resounds with so may.

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,

Do not let a primary task distract you.

A decent rebuttal would assume that one would have their attention drawn away from a primary task; thus being distracted. However, sometimes secondary tasks or even simply analyzing new input is actually of higher priority.

Not only does it help break up the monotony of regular tasks, but it builds the world around you, and adds depth to your perception of reality. This seems to be summed up reasonably well in an English aphorism:

“Stop and smell the roses”

Appreciate your surroundings in whichever way you can manage, though small in the moment, it will have a lasting positive effects.