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Hello everyone, welcome to another DailyJim. This is the episode for Wednesday, March 6th. It's a few hours after because I've been in my coding zone.
What I want to talk about today is how I think sometimes when we interact a lot with things, it makes it really hard to interact, interact a lot with humans. Interact not interlact. Oh, late night coding. Um, so on that note sitting, there in coding I think can make it hard for me to remember how to speak because i haven't spoken a lot as i've been sitting there looking at the computer screen um maybe speaking in my own head as i'm trying to figure out okay how do i do i i put the code here do i put the code there how is that not working let me look at this let me look at that okay if i finish this then i will do this next and and for me computer programming is.
One of those things that i interact with a lot the computer and the code is what i'm interacting interacting with a lot. And I noticed that sometimes when I can get into those modes and a lot of interaction with those elements, it's very hard for me to code and then step away and then go to dinner with friends and family. Because I'm still thinking about the code, I'm still thinking in terms of commands, in terms of all these different structures.
And I'm almost certain that this analogy is not going to land with everyone, but maybe it would in different ways. I had a friend who used to build boats, or somebody who maybe gets into painting, or somebody who goes into accounting and really is going deep into numbers and interacting with numbers all the time, or somebody who is interacting with wiring up a building from from an electrician standpoint. Or somebody who is really deep into video editing or graphic design or proofreading or sports, right? So really interacting with perhaps a machine that's in the gym or what other, I mean, so many different things that we can interact with that are not humans. Humans and for i mean interacting with dogs maybe it's closer because it's kind of human but still i think it's sometimes can be hard to interact with dogs all the time and then try to interact with humans because our modes of interaction are quite different i mean obviously there's similarities more similarities between interacting with a human and a dog than there are between interacting with a human and a computer at least up until this point maybe not even until this point some of these AIs, um. Are pretty, I don't know how to put that into words, um, but, uh, yeah, so really just thinking about how, I think, you know, when we look at politics and things, we think that so much of the problem isn't the direct problem that's happening, but a A lot of times it's just indirect things that we've been interacting with that have changed our mode of interaction and made it hard for us to interact with other humans.
I'm trying to think what could be some other examples for people.
What do people do that doesn't involve people? What are some things that people interact with?
Oh, I don't know, sleep. Do people interact with sleep? I guess we have dreams about other humans typically. Typically, but any type of artisan, you know, any type of non- human interaction that we would have on a consistent basis, I think, can just change the way that we interact with people. I remember, so I went to a museum tour of a prison and talked about this one guy who got. He wasn't allowed to talk to people for like six years, and they said that he started to to forget how to communicate because if we're not communicating with other humans, what i mean i guess we can use language for ourselves but we're not learning new words we're not testing things out we're not even speaking a lot of times so maybe our vocal chords are changing in some ways and yeah so what i'm trying to say is that i'm almost done coding at least for now and i'm excited to get back to interacting with more humans and more frequently so for all you that have been paying attention and staying along on this journey i appreciate it and i look forward to re- engaging in a more humane a less computational way, although again those lines are somewhat blurring these days but i don't think they're that blurry yet. All right, on that note, I think it's around five minutes, and that sounds great
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