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Daily writing prompt
If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
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For this prompt the erase from history button here is ambiguous so I don’t know if this is an everyone has or just me, I will assume everyone.

Honestly, I do not think I would erase any event, because as much as erasing that one event would help in the moment you never know what you would unleash by it. If I were stop say some event, Say hitler from being born, what is to say that by doing that the people that influenced hitler would influence someone else and make a super hitler.

I live by the mantra of it is what it is. The idea that one event being erased just does not have appeal to me because I while I cant wonder how much worse of better it would be, It has the same appeal of “bad genie” wishes. Even the show family guy touches on this when Brian stops 9/11 and things turn out much worse. What is to say by stopping one event that you are making another event better, in the philosophical context if one stopped the Titanic from sinking what is to say you save the ship but, but someone from that ship becomes an event 10x worse than the original event. Say by stopping the Titanic sinking, one of the survivors drives Alexander Fleming on a different career route – that alone would make a tragedy that makes the original incident minor in comparison. I feel like if we all had a delete button for the one moment of hindsight for a personal thing vs the history eraser that is limited to short term the implications would be much more limited.

But if I were forced to change a singular event, I guess that would be a card I would hold on to for a singular moment. The prompt is not particular to anything and history is what we make it. I mean my end point still has all the danger of the original theory , but here’s the thing if we had a short term eraser , Even if i hit delete on an event someone could countermend me. Ironically, with the prompt the way it is, Everything would just happen the way it was meant to happen. Schrodinger’s cat would still be alive and dead in the box, and the scientist trying to figure out quantum supposition is still trying to figure it out. Funnier is the factor something like this would confirm the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Daily writing prompt
Are you a lifelong learner?
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So I was looking at the dashboard and saw this… I’ll bite..

I can’t say if I am a lifelong learner or a lifelong experiencer. When a problem comes up I view at as a problem and a learning experience. But, in a way I guess it would make me a lifelong learner, I view life and look for its patterns or how something works. To understand how something works gives me a greater understanding of that around me.

When I’ve made my post criticising AI, I view AI as machine that knows all the words and guesses how to use it. I look at things and want to know how they work. We look at the world around us and pretty much guess that magic makes the world work. Unfortunately it can be much darker than that. Things we’ve taken for granted makes being a lifelong learner a curse to see the word being broken down into small parts and financially sold off.

We base out culture on companies that take away the learning as an art and they present it as a convenience. We can not avoid having a personal learning experience removed from us by Cognitively offloaded to some AI and make some dramatic post that in the end we learn nothing from.

I’d rather learn something every day, some days we don’t, Some days we do. But otherwise the convenience of offloading everything we do into the magic black portal of a screen or a delve into doom-scrolling is a loss. We are losing our creativity day by day , we can type into a prompt and say “make me a beautiful song with violins and kazoos” and some stupid AI prompt spits out a file. Rather than take the route of figuring out how music works. You can start simple, On screen keyboard, piano done simply by the 1 through = keys on your keyboard. than Move up to a small keyboard from alesis or like keyboard.

Even with picking up the basics of a keyboard you will still fail at first but through repetition you learn. Even in the end if your output sounds like banging the side of a trashcan for 10 minutes you have accomplished something. But with the corporate end of things they want you to just spit that file out and pass it on. You have cognitivally learned nothing.

So in the end am I saying offloading is bad? … No… but, you have to use it to learn. Use it to see why something was made the way it was. Find out how it came together and try it yourself, If you don’t nothing is learned nothing is gained.

The Price of Convenience can be the death of lifelong learning or it can be a branch of new life long experiences you otherwise would not of thought of… use the tools to learn not make the tool learn for you.