Life isn't that simple. You can love more than one person at a time. He should have been open about what was going on, though.

He should have told his gf he was going to go over there, but wanted her to know, first. They would have had a conversation about it.

That's probably too simplistic. Let them decide what they deserve and what work they're willing to put in to get there.

Ghosting people isn't the way to go. Be direct and clear and you'll get the results you want without dragging people along or confusing them.

I played with the picture; this is what I see when I look at this.

Maybe this will work better: [Imgur](https://imgur.com/H0nFoZm)

Clearly looks like two merging galaxies, what's so weird about this?

Can you imagine the collective mind-fuck it would be if, whilst peering deep into the cosmos, we didn't find the beginning of time, or aliens, but we started to see a familiar pattern in the stars? Can you imagine an AI analyzing faint distant images and concluding with 99.99999999999% certainty that it's seeing the same star formations in multiple places in the universe, impossible to perceive with the naked eye? The wild theories that would create, and the ones it would destroy? I think that would be more amazing and horrifying than discovering super intelligent aliens.

Unless I'm not understanding the question, I'm fairly certain this is a significant talking point regarding AI. I'm sure a simple Google search could find plenty of conversations.

My favorite author is Dean Koontz, and he is masterful at this. In any given "scene" you hear, see, or smell things that pull you in even deeper than you already were. I'm sure there are authors even better at this than he is, but he's the one I know and I couldn't agree with you more. On that note, thank you for the reminder. It's so easy to get stuck on pacing the structure of a story or getting caught up in pedantic details. The simple human experience is at the heart of all good writing.

The older you get the more you'll treasure moments like this. My girlfriend will occasionally throw something ridiculous into sex, which we both laugh about until we can't breathe. For instance: I had a cat when we first started dating, who was not fixed. Before she got fixed she would always "present" (that's where a female cat assumes the position), and while doing so let out these agonizingly cute "chirping" sounds. Imagine it as rolling your tongue with increasing pitch, as if asking a question. Years later, we still have the cat, she no longer does that weird shit, and all is well. Until one night, while having sex, my girlfriend perfectly mimicked that chirping sound knowing full well that it would destroy the mood, but make me laugh. I can't remember every time I've had sex with her, but I'll never forget laughing with her that night.

All I'm saying is, you'll be happier if you own it, and laugh with her. :)

I think we need to drive home the definitions of these things. Any time a bill is written in congress, it is a DeFacto conspiracy. Theorizing about said bill is, by definition, a conspiracy theory. "Conspiracy theorists" are generally extremely imaginative to the point that they see meaning in vague, loose connections that often have no meaning -- and they have trouble seeing coincidence. To them, there's almost always some insidious reason for everything. So they see connections that might not be there, and they see evil intent in those connections.

In the process of this, they become incredibly active and dedicated to finding "proof". They dig up everything they can find. Sometimes, like a broken clock, they find something that might actually be worth investigating.

God damn, we are in Brawndo territory at this point.

Young people learn way more efficiently because their brains are still developing. Our adult versions are still on whatever trajectory was set by our younger selves. If a child is passionate about this subject matter, by the time they're 15, they'll probably be extremely good at it. By the time they're 25, they'll be better than any adult who started as an adult.

Today's 15-year-olds live in an entirely different world. The opportunities to find interest in this subject are vast now. That wasn't the case 25 years ago.

I would put money on a 15 year old establishing AGI before you do it.

I'm less intimated putting an alternator in a car than I am by a coffee machine, because I hate coffee and don't drink it.

The fact that there's an AI that can read a story and illustrate it on its own tells me it's closer than a lot of people think. That's suspiciously close to imagination.

Humans simulate a lot more than we generally want to believe. And we are constantly in a feedback loop, cross-referencing our view of ourselves to our view of the world -- making sure everything is the way it "should" be. I think that over the next 5-10 years studies will become uncomfortably revealing as to how machine-like we are, while increasingly advanced AI's begin to out-simulate us to the point that philosophically, we begin to panic to find the "us" in us.