Very rarely and usually only in cases where it is either exceptional or awful.

Me too

So basically if I ignored all impacts of using it I would be ok with it as a first pass at some sort of information gathering if I was willing to check deeper.

When I used it, I asked things like “change the tone of this writing” or “make these bullet points include key words to match this job post”.

That said, it does have impacts and I’m not willing to incur them for my passing curiosities or to speed up job applications.

One of my hobbies seems like it should be be easy for AI to move into. Crochet patterns are often fairly mathematically based. However every generated pattern I’ve looked at has been nonsensical garbage. Images that look cute and plausible at first pass are basically imagination. It used to be really easy to spot but it is getting harder/more subtle.

I used to work in healthcare and when I first got access to chat GPT I asked it some simple differential diagnosis questions. It gave a few very common possibilities for the symptoms I gave but completely ignore an important red flag that even a first year med student should (probably would) keep in mind.

I usually suggest Lindy hop first, but the blues and fusion crowd are great too.

Ohhhh, let me tell you about partner dancing.

There’s a bunch of people who are weirdly fascinated by a particular piece of hold music. I think Kaiser used to use it. NPR searched out the composer and I have a file of the whole thing.

I don’t even think that’s necessarily true. Sure I don’t want to lay concrete all afternoon in the blazing sun just like yesterday. But if I had the opportunity and material and could wait for a nice day, I’d totally redo the side walks around my neighborhood three squares at a time. And then go play the violin (ukulele).

This is actually a great thought experiment. Some philosopher (I forget the details) suggested that a culture/society could be judged how willing people would be to take the place of any random person within it. Like when people are like “American culture peaked in the 20s/50s/etc”, but you can point out that only counts if you’re a white man. The experience of pretty much everyone else is unenviable for a multitude of reasons.

You’re suggesting that yeah there may be some positions that are better than others, but pretty much any of them would be good.

I used to work in healthcare and bad news, the last 10 years the shit show has become even shittier in a way that feels like an acceleration. I left because I just couldn’t deal and feel better working for a tech company that is at least transparent what they do. However, somewhere in the middle of my career I had a patient with an aggressive brain cancer that took him from being a middle class working guy to basically unable to move without assistance. However, when I met him he was not receiving chemo or radiation or any specific care because he was diagnosed with cancer after collapsing at work. He was diagnosed and directly lost his job. He had to wait for a new month to be covered by the insurance his family purchased through the ACA market place. He had already earned too much that year to qualify for Medicaid. He sat around for three and a half weeks loosing function and possibly metastasizing because no one would treat him.

I have two photo books from high school, so maybe 30 pictures of me and friends or family from then. There’s a bit of a gap due to using poor back up practices. Recently I’ve been having a book of pictures printed to save the highlights of my year. I’m not naturally a picture taker so knowing I want to have pictures for “the book” has been a bit of a motivator.

The last two years, I’ve also gathered photos of my nephew and made a similar book which runs from birthday to birthday for him.

I always took it as a compliment when older people in my life wanted to set me up. Like they enjoyed me enough to add me to their family?

I had a T9 into at least 2012. I definitely had a smart phone (kinda) in 2014. The exact transition is lost to memory. I used to text the bus system to find out if my bus was on time.

Congratulations that’s huge news! I bet you had to do a bunch of work to get this point.

Fair. It was the California Bay Area

That still feels on the low end. It’s what I paid for my photos in 2018 and I got a friends rate.

I’m in the middle of a reread of Gideon the Ninth. I clearly enjoy it enough to reread. I have read the full series.

Would this be some positivi-tea?

This is an excellent take and lines up pretty strongly with my personal experience.

The article I saw on Med Page stating that Noah Wylie had been accepted to med school. Plausible enough for a double take.