Tales from Easement Acres
Its Pursuit, and the Unique Human Condition Happiness is a Lie One word defines a universal human desire, and no…it isn’t that. Nay, ask anyone, and if the conversation goes on long enough, the human wants distill down to a state of being: happiness. It’s a nice thought, to believe we could so easily be …
Part of homeownership, I’ve noticed, is the increased onslaught of people who want to sell me things I don’t need. But in the interest of civility, as I myself have worked for many years interacting with the public, I exercise good manners. But, as with telemarketers, these door-to-door salesman tend to be over-aggressive. If they …
Once something becomes popular, it becomes expensive. I suppose we could attribute that to supply and demand, but it’s so damned annoying when it’s something that I like. That, and the innate desire to remain mysteriously cool by shunting popular culture becomes suddenly threatened. I hate when things deflate my ego. So it was that …
[Candid screenplays as derived from real social encounters] FADE IN: INT. BEDROOM – EVENING In the suburbs, a man confronts his wife with pressing news as she’s otherwise engaged in domestic routine. MAN, weary from a day of work, holding iPhone. MAN “Well that’s irritating, I updated my VPN app, and there’s apparently been an …
There’s a human cost, in NPCs, when trying to simulate groups of interacting individuals. Too often are AIs reduced to two interactions: be hostile or don’t be hostile. Yes, that’s a ubiquitous human paradigm, but there’s one that’s even more common–humans forming relationships–which is rarely explored to any convincing degree. And so, the NPCs with …