it would actually be really interesting to talk to the people who did what is effectively the interaction design for star trek the next generation and onward, vis-à-vis the computer noteworthy because the interactions with the (majel barrett) computer were always terse if not outright curt

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*I wonder how one would build an "AI" if you intended to "liberate" one and make it autonomous, a proud citizen, a legal and ethical individual member of the polis, that sort of thing *How would it control its own components and voltage, its maintenance requirements and replacement parts, etc

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*Like, you've got some Batmanesque self-driving smart-car, and you've decided it's not merely a "car," it's your intelligent chatty Jarvis sidekick from now on *Now it's got a flat tire and needs an oil change. Who's in charge of that. Who decides it is necessary

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This tweet, except they'll find any excuse to push you into that category when they want to be cruel.

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I love when leaves do their thing of exploring their color mixing through continuously varying chemical levels from one side of a building/tree to another. It's like "here's everything going on in a leaf, for your inspection," like centrifugating leaf color.

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