Category: ◦ Droplets in Time

AI “Walk and Talk”

Posted by | Sep 23, 2025 |

Chat about AI, by phone from the comfort of your own home (or potentially in person if in Cambridge MA area):

  • What is AI, really? And where is it all headed?
  • Amazing facts, experiments, experiences.
  • Specific AI recommendations.
  • How to use. (Hint — Treat as collaborator, not tool — and certainly not just as “fancy search engine”.)
  • Education, Art, Writing, Healthcare, Therapy, Coding, Research, Law, Philosophy, …

Most Sci-Fi experience I have ever had in my lifetime, and increasing capabilities at exponential pace. “The Aliens Have Landed.”

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Communications and Comments, Collected.

Posted by | Dec 10, 2024 | ,

This page includes both:

  • An of the type typically seen in connection with web posts/publications.
  • “Personal Communications” as one might otherwise typically expect in a 1-to-1 email — or Open Letter.

(PS: Should I eventually enable other’s comments on this site, it will likely have a similar aggregated structure.

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My long-time significant other, lovingly but quite seriously, at one point entreated me: Please, please behave in a way that I can continue to pretend you're normal.

My long-time significant other, lovingly but quite seriously, at one point entreated me:

Please, please behave in a way that I can continue to pretend you're normal.

Mirroring her delightful directness:

Please, please sign up for my once-per-millennium email list, so that I can pretend I have a real audience 👀.

(Whether you actually read, or instead create an email filter to auto-delete, is substantially immaterial — I just need to be able to fantasize you are reading it in order to motivate me to actually write and otherwise create. In this regard, check out Derek Siver's very useful new book "Useful, not True".

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