Reality is not just a game

It’s a game console

You pick the game you want to play and press start

The key is to pick a game you want to play and start playing and winning

Everyone is playing the game consciously or unconsciously

WordPress’ AI assistant provided the following feedback. Might expand on this later.

To ensure the metaphor is clear, consider adding an explanation of how ‘reality’ functions as a ‘game console’. Expanding on the comparison might enhance the reader’s understanding. It may also improve to contemplate different experiences people might have, instead of assuming that everyone has a desire to ‘play and win’, introducing a sense of inclusivity. Lastly, it would add depth to discuss how one might navigate this ‘game’ whether they are aware of it or not.

One more trip around the Sun. Our planet goes around the sun and we celebrate one more year. Like clockwork, since the beginning of time.

Same celestial motion, same rotating hamster wheel year after year. #happynewyear2024

Morning in America, or a Dark Winter?

Choose One

I’ve been playing with some GPT-3 apps the past few weeks. I have to say I’m impressed. The little AI is growing.

Imagine what GPT-18 will look like. The scene in “HER” is becoming reality.

At some point AI will create the scenarios and dialogues for books and movies.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell, 1984

Going to try to be more authentic this year.   Speak my truth, as they say.    How does one speak their truth?   Truth changes as people change.   I’m not the same person I was five or ten or twenty years ago.    As Alan Watts once said: “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

Different strokes for different folks

50 years ago we put a man on the moon

50 years later we have Snapchat and Instagram models

Number of mass shooting victims in the US – circa 120 per year

Number of abortions per year  – circa 600,000 per year