<div dir="ltr">Spike,<br>I'm glad it was inspiring to you. That is the real value of these AIs, they spark our own creativity and imagination. <br>Giovanni </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 10:11 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
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From: <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br>
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Spike, what happened to Charlie and how did he find a way?<br>
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Charlie Finds a Way<br>
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Chapter 1 ended with:<br>
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>… Charlie failed to see the humor in it, but of course he is of the<br>
modern generation, who appear as humorless as the proper Victorian ladies<br>
from 150 years ago. In any case, the geezers would often form impromptu<br>
couples which would be hooting and carrying on into the night.<br>
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>…Charlie formed his lack of personality cult and moved next door with the<br>
UUs. Then one day they had a block party and the Aged Animal House people<br>
met the boring UUs. That was absurd enough, but it caused Charlie to get an<br>
idea, which had (and is still having) enormous consequences today, which<br>
shall be the subject of chapter 2.<br>
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Chapter 2:<br>
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Charlie wasn’t the smartest guy you ever met, or even in the top… several<br>
hundred, but he was a diligent soul. When his UU lack-of-personality cult<br>
met his neighbors, Charlies grandparents and their elderly friends, they<br>
discussed their lives. Charlie heard his cult members saying the biggest<br>
drawback to their cult life is the lack of personal space. They shared a<br>
room with another person, so it was like a college dorm room in that sense.<br>
They had no place to go where they could just shut out the world and do<br>
their own thing in private.<br>
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That gave Charlie an idea, for he realized a lot of people in our world<br>
today work from home and really do need some personal space, but not a lot<br>
of it really. Housing in San Jose is absurdly difficult to get, and all<br>
efforts to deal with the housing shortage just fail in epic fashion.<br>
Homeless people are everywhere, and there is no clear solution. Charlie<br>
realized that a typical suburban home in San Jose is set up to house a<br>
typical nuclear family, but a large fraction of the local population just<br>
don’t fit that pattern. There are a lot of singles, either by misfortune or<br>
mismatrimony, or in many cases just from having never strolled down the old<br>
aisle.<br>
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Charlie realized that a typical suburban home bedroom could be bifurcated<br>
effectively. By sacrificing a little of the divided room and adding two<br>
additional narrow open-out doors, the bedroom could contain two small rooms<br>
where either could be entered without the adjacent room even being aware<br>
that anyone had come or gone. The residents could now have personal<br>
property securely. A typical bedroom door is open-in. Imagine walls in a<br>
configuration around that bedroom door such that a small entryway is formed<br>
with two narrow additional doors, one to each room. That was Charlie’s<br>
idea: turn his 4 bedroom house into an 8 “bedroom” house of sorts. He<br>
realized how easy it would be to build something like that. He was a<br>
carpenter.<br>
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Charlie’s housemates all agreed enthusiastically, so he divided all the<br>
bedrooms, giving the residents a small but very private space. They loved<br>
it, in spite of the fact that there were compromises. Most standard<br>
furniture could not go in those rooms because of the narrow inner doorways.<br>
This was acceptable however, for there just wasn’t a lot of room in there<br>
anyway. The furniture needed to be taken inside the room and assembled<br>
there.<br>
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In our times, many people work from home, so now the residents could have a<br>
private space to put their computers on a table or small desk. There is<br>
little need for paper, which means one could live comfortably with a fold-up<br>
bed, a desk with a phone and a computer, and a rack upon which to hang one’s<br>
clothing. What else does one really need?<br>
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Charlie built it, they loved it.<br>
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Soon Charlie’s grandparents heard what he was doing, and they wanted their<br>
three bedrooms bifurcated likewise. Their six renters loved it as well. At<br>
the cost of having very little room, they received much-coveted private<br>
space. Deal!<br>
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Word got around, and soon owners of suburban homes all around the area<br>
began contacting Charlie wanting to hire him to do his magic on their homes<br>
so they too could take in six renters. Soon the somewhat simple-minded<br>
Charlie was busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest. <br>
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The new income caused Charlie to become a mildly interesting person, which<br>
caused his lack-of-personality cult to lose disinterest in him. It was easy<br>
for them to be disinterested in him while he was poor and boring, but with<br>
all the demand for his work, he soon wasn’t poor, which means he was no<br>
longer sufficiently boring, which caused his cult to lose disinterest in<br>
him. They all left, in search of a new boring person to follow. But with<br>
the newly remodeled 8 bedroom home in the hottest real estate market in the<br>
state, Charlie didn’t mind his boring old crowd going away. New renters<br>
came. <br>
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Giovanni, that was the real meaning behind those panels you presented, to<br>
me anyway. The two chapters of Charlie Finds a Way represent ChatGPT giving<br>
the prompt and the human writing the response.<br>
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spike <br>
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