Thank you for talking about your friend. As someone on the autism spectrum, I am worried about a future where most of the humans would become so used to ChatGPT-enhanced human responses, that they might find my broken approach of using language as being another bot response, or as coming from someone who happens to be an incompetent user of ChatGPT. I am not guessing which is worse, but to have your attempt at communicating being deemed suspicious does hurt.
"The origin of the saying of the dead, which emphasises the nothingness of earthly life, is attributed to Arabic poetry. Thus the Arab poet ʿAdī b. Zayd, as he rode past graves with the king of Hira (c. 580 CE), has the dead exclaim to the king:
"We were what you are; But the time will come, And it will come to you swiftly, when ye shall be what we are."
Like the dance of death and the triumph of death, the motif is emblematic of the medieval admonition memento mori. Simultaneous depiction of the topoi is common, for example in Francesco Traini's mid-fourteenth-century fresco Triumph of Death, which depicts the three living and the three dead. The legend was also integrated in the Dance of Death by Kientzheim.
A fresco from the Isefjord workshop in the church of Tuse (Denmark) from the 15th century shows three mounted kings on the hunt, who are met by three dead kings from whom maggots and worms escape. Each of them is assigned a banner. On the first dead man's banner is written: "Vos qui transitis n(os)t(r)i me(m)ores rogo sitis" (You who are passing by, I beg you: Remember us), on the second: "Quod sumus hoc eritis" (What we are now, you shall become one day) and on the third: "Fuimus aliquando quod estis" (We were once what you are now). Above their heads one reads: "Heu qua(n)tus est noster dolor" (Oh, how great is our pain)."
I'm hoping to be corrected, but I don't see any lying here (perhaps a white lie to spur a creative colleague into action). The original segment[1] was titled "Pong: an exercise that started an Industry" by Tekla Perry. I'm wondering if it was someone else at IEEE Spectrum who decided to change the title, and if so then it is a poor choice because it sounds misleading.
I agree with chapium, and my thanks to him for penning down his observations into words. I would add that there comes a point when these systems and their maintenance overwhelm my limited abilities (I know because I have tried org-mode, and OneNote). I often keep defaulting to pen/paper, but carrying around sheafs (now boxes) of papers is no fun.
And I agree with pc86's thoughts on 'decent organization system' and "always open". I am working on getting better at it with pen/paper.
'Lovelock: You see, when I passed 100, I thought, "What is there to do now? What is there to look forward to?" I don't have any more duties. I enjoy life now... When I wake up in the morning I often think: "Oh, it’s a nice world!" I live here with my wife, we are still in love, what more do I want?'
Thank you, dvorka! I recall having come across your website, and MindForger a few weeks ago when I was looking for lite Markdown editors. Thank you for posting. I am going to try it soon.
What's possibly hilarious is to have never tried it, and to suspect that its concept is creepy.
Sure, the webcam is on, but as long as the person at the other end seems to be reasonably busy with something, it should not be bothersome at all. And of course, you can always exit a session.
On having to pay for it - why not? Why not try paying for a service that asks for a reasonably designed monthly payment term instead of annual one time payments? Or the ones on which ads cover half the page?