First of all, this is a personal position not something I’m trying to enshrine into law.

Second of all the ability to recognize that you need help/assistance, actually ask, and be receptive to receiving it is a large part of my reason for including that. It shows a level of maturity to go through that process and yes I think that people who don’t do it are child-ish.

I’ve thought about this a lot since the prior social markers are less useful these days. For me it’s being someone who has the resources and abilities to navigate the things needed for day to day life.

I used to tell patients who I took to the bathroom and then I managed their peri hygiene (with gloves!) that we would still wash their hands even though they didn’t touch anything because it was just a good habit to have.

I just got a SCOBY!

I’m someone who has multiple degrees including a clinical doctorate (think similar to optometrist, pharmacist etc). I think that the things you just listed (except maybe working in a group) were less developed or tested in my degree programs than they have been in my hobby spaces. I really wish it were possible for me to submit the afghan that took me two years to complete over my associates degree.

Very rarely and usually only in cases where it is either exceptional or awful.

So basically if I ignored all impacts of using it I would be ok with it as a first pass at some sort of information gathering if I was willing to check deeper.

When I used it, I asked things like “change the tone of this writing” or “make these bullet points include key words to match this job post”.

That said, it does have impacts and I’m not willing to incur them for my passing curiosities or to speed up job applications.

One of my hobbies seems like it should be be easy for AI to move into. Crochet patterns are often fairly mathematically based. However every generated pattern I’ve looked at has been nonsensical garbage. Images that look cute and plausible at first pass are basically imagination. It used to be really easy to spot but it is getting harder/more subtle.

I used to work in healthcare and when I first got access to chat GPT I asked it some simple differential diagnosis questions. It gave a few very common possibilities for the symptoms I gave but completely ignore an important red flag that even a first year med student should (probably would) keep in mind.

I usually suggest Lindy hop first, but the blues and fusion crowd are great too.

Ohhhh, let me tell you about partner dancing.

There’s a bunch of people who are weirdly fascinated by a particular piece of hold music. I think Kaiser used to use it. NPR searched out the composer and I have a file of the whole thing.

This is actually a great thought experiment. Some philosopher (I forget the details) suggested that a culture/society could be judged how willing people would be to take the place of any random person within it. Like when people are like “American culture peaked in the 20s/50s/etc”, but you can point out that only counts if you’re a white man. The experience of pretty much everyone else is unenviable for a multitude of reasons.

You’re suggesting that yeah there may be some positions that are better than others, but pretty much any of them would be good.

I have two photo books from high school, so maybe 30 pictures of me and friends or family from then. There’s a bit of a gap due to using poor back up practices. Recently I’ve been having a book of pictures printed to save the highlights of my year. I’m not naturally a picture taker so knowing I want to have pictures for “the book” has been a bit of a motivator.

The last two years, I’ve also gathered photos of my nephew and made a similar book which runs from birthday to birthday for him.

I always took it as a compliment when older people in my life wanted to set me up. Like they enjoyed me enough to add me to their family?

I had a T9 into at least 2012. I definitely had a smart phone (kinda) in 2014. The exact transition is lost to memory. I used to text the bus system to find out if my bus was on time.

Fair. It was the California Bay Area

That still feels on the low end. It’s what I paid for my photos in 2018 and I got a friends rate.

This is an excellent take and lines up pretty strongly with my personal experience.

The article I saw on Med Page stating that Noah Wylie had been accepted to med school. Plausible enough for a double take.

10/10 no notes. Thank you for this pun.