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I’ve reached “jeans are no longer my default, chinos are” years old.

Going to celebrate with a reasonable bedtime.

Heads on pikes outside the gates of a city work best when they are tall enough for the heads to be seen inside the gates of the city.

Tonight, I didn’t know the right setting for cooking white beans in my Instant Pot. So, I Googled it. The top result was Google’s AI telling me exactly what I needed to know. Did not need to click further. I now know the right method going forward.

Did I use AI for the answer? Did I learn?

Yes.

What happens when the AI is good enough (i.e. now) that teachers start accusing anyone of using AI because they can’t tell the difference between when a student has learned a way to phrase something better or solve a problem in a different way? How does one distinguish between learning and learning?

Our family rules:

We don’t Door Dash. We don’t Uber Eat. We don’t Shipt. We don’t get it delivered. We don’t drive up. We don’t drive through.

We pick up. We get out of our car. We go in. We talk to the cashiers. Sometimes the cook. We say thank you to a person.

What happens if us becomes them? What if they become us? What if they always were us and we always were them? What if there never was an us versus them or them versus us?