Conversations With Myself (and sometimes other people)
Navigating the crises of American millennial life through inner dialogue, character bits, mediocre impressions, the occasional sit down conversation with a real person, and other questionable acts of "creative expression".
Conversations With Myself (and sometimes other people)
AI Overlords Will Look Out For Us
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I simply cannot wait to not have to work anymore.
Welcome plebes. Welcome back to this rock we were all floating on through space. We used to think the sun revolved around us. We were wrong. But we still think everything revolves around us. Our struggle used to be, hey, let's not get eaten by that large fucking cat over there. So we crafted tools and weaponry out of rocks and sticks and shit. So we could improve our chances of not getting eaten by that large fucking cat over there. Eventually, we figured out how to make fire. Then much, much later, we realized if we make a circle cut out of a rock, we can make wheels and be able to move things around in much larger volume, much faster than before. Then agriculture exploded, and humans began to enjoy the fruits of their labor like never before. Eventually, we realized that things like diseases weren't curses or random acts of the gods, but because of things we can't see with their naked eyes that would transfer from animals to humans and humans to other humans and so forth. And eventually we got modern medicine, exponentially increasing average human lifespans. We discover things like electricity and experience never before seen industrial-level growth and productivity. See a pattern yet? Humans keep pushing the boundaries of what we previously knew how to do. Fast forward through inventions like human flight, automobiles, trains, modern appliances, cell phones, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. All previous innovations brought with it a change to the status quo, and was not always a comfortable transition for humans, with some stuck on their old ways and being left behind. But overall, humans have adapted. You can see adaptation already happening with AI. Hell, my wife talks to ChatGPT, aka Chatty, about basically everything, like it's the one-stop shop for all knowledge and wisdom. Am I optimistic about AI in our future? I don't see why I shouldn't be. If it's going to eliminate my need to work and struggle, and I get to sit around and do podcasts all day, then I'm all for it. I'm not sure how my mortgage is going to get paid when that happens, but I figured I would just ask Chatty when we cross that bridge. In the future, we won't have to buy things or even need money or need to worry about retirement. You know how I know that? Elon Musk? Elon Musk said so. He said that the prosperity and abundance of resources and near zero costs will be rampant, where our needs will go from worrying about the daily grind and barely paying our bills, to just not being bored all the time. I, for one, could not be happier with this future. We all owe our AI overlords an immense debt of gratitude for looking out for us so that we can finally reach our final destination. Utopia. And then the aliens will come and destroy our new god and force us to return to the daily toiling and torment of basic survival once again. We will have forgotten how to make fire and how to make wheels because we had surrendered all our mental faculties to chatty. And then we come face to face with that large fucking cat over there. We look at it and it looks at us. And in a panic we begin to run away. It begins to chase us. It begins to feel like a dream. Come on, Caleb, wake the fuck up. Wake the fuck up before that large fucking cat gets your ass. As I'm giving it my all, I notice a comet entering our atmosphere. I step running and fall to my knees and weep. Tears of joy. Because now I won't have to worry about figuring out anything anymore. The struggle finally ends. And the large fucking cat got to me before the comet made an impact. Fuck it.