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many choices today, is to be kind. i will opt for that. as i have heard it said and a is have found out for myself, it really does not cost me anything to be kind. in fact, as the reading states that consciously being kind reduces the work of admitting i am wrong and making corrections on the back-end, like working a TENTH STEP in real-time. being kind, by default, is hardly something i was born to do, or at least that is how it felt in active addiction and my early recovery. in active addiction, it was part of the game, kindness had a huge string attached to it. at least by the time i entered recovery, for real, i could be kind without expecting anything grand in return. truth be told, what i did expect was a bit of respect and my kindness reciprocated. small expectations and ones that took more than a minute to fade.
ironically, the creative roll i thought i was on yesterday, was not one after all. i was betrayed by technology and ended up spending most of my day, getting things back to an acceptable state. what that teaches me, is that deferring meeting attendance for AI, is not the swiftest move in my playbook. 🤣 what i am discovering in this AI world is that life in its world is not at all deterministic or predictable and that if one wants AI to be deterministic and predictable, one has to write rules and verify the AI is following them. in the course of my human relationships, if i treated others in that manner, i would hardly be anywhere close to kind, as i do not expect human affairs to be either deterministic nor predictable. when i stumble into that belief system, i am setting myself up for a huge fall and lots of bitter disappointment. my mistake with AI, has been to treat it as if it is a person, when it is a tool that responds to m y literal commands, as best as it can, given its programming, which falls well short of being a well-behaved system.
as this is a work day and i have to get moving in that direction, i can certainly close this down, as there is not a whole lot more for me to say. treating AI with kindness does not work, treating humans without being kind with constraints, rules and chiding them when they even get close to the line, will never make me a better person and it certainly will not allow those with whom i share my life to have the desire to spend any time with me. i am not a rock nor an island, i am a human being who may values being alone, but desires connection, and interaction with the world around me.

∞ DT ∞