Thanks, Glen, I love the word Apatheist. It even has a Wikipedia page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism>.
-- Russ Abbott <https://russabbott.substack.com/> (Click for my Substack) Professor Emeritus, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess there will be Optimus Prime instances filling the role of playing > golf with customers/peers/superiors by playing with one another? No > reason a humanoid robot can't not just be trained to whack their balls > around with sticks but also do it with the same signature style up to and > including styles of cheating? See Commander in Cheat > <https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rick-reilly/commander-in-cheat/9780316528030/?utm_source=chatgpt.com> > . > > When Musk was advertising for people to "train" these humanoid robots, I > took it to mean gearing up to "teach by example" and encouraged Mary to > check into it. She is a consummate goathead weed-puller and it occurs to > me that with the right IP agreements, one could spend a season shadowed by > an OptimusPrime (or equivalent) and at the end be "set for life" on the > $.001/weed royalties for every weed pulled by every instance anywhere > forever? I'm sure Musk doesn't offer shared IP... > > I recently was corrected by (on of my favorite) favorite authors, Margaret > Atwood, in the introduction to her recent Essay collection: "Burning > Questions" on the (mis) attribution of "Golf: A good walk spoiled" to Twain > when it was apparently instead WC Fields. Noodling that out lead me to > twain Twain *actual* golf-quip: "“It’s good sportsmanship not to pick up > lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” There are quite a few well > known sources of such quips it would seem, perhaps the biggest thing I've > missed out on by being constitutionally averse to Golf? > > Just a few: > > “I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” > — G.K. Chesterton > > “Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a > bagpipe.” > — Lee Trevino“ > > Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and > hitting things with a stick.” > — P.J. O’Rourke > > > On 10/24/25 12:12 pm, Santafe wrote: > > Boy, and I thought it was tough when Japanese office members are expected to > go out golfing with each other on weekends to build team spirit. > > Can’t imagine a group of people I’d rather spend _my entire life_ around. > > > On Oct 24, 2025, at 13:45, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a little confused. Musk says we'll leave it all to the robots and the > AI and it will be green grass and sunny days. > But he has them doing this: > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gncrypto.news%2fnews%2fxai-grokipedia-launch-engineers-camp-la%2f&c=E,1,-PImHvyEdNpLDkTl5C926uO5f20HSGkeU7X2mb-phARxllle8d-po_cQGNgBW3HyxhW2iPi6h0VeUkQTuC3Fz0Wzg1DAq0bCqSlCnjUoYw,,&typo=1 > > What's the rush, man? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of glen > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] bro, please > > With the chaos at the NIH (and the whole fed, I guess), I find myself > trolling job offerings. Methodologically, I'm lazy, somewhere between a > cynic, a taoist, and an apatheist. And almost every job offer contains > sentiments like this: > > "We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and > camaraderie of an Olympic team." Hoorah! Get Pumped! Let's Goooooo! > Yeeeeaaaaahhhh! > > OMG I'm so tired of it. I guess it's similar to toxic positivity. It's so > refreshing when some rando at the pub vehemently disagrees with me. They're > often surprised when I respond enthusiastically to their disagreeable > nonsense. The same goes with this toxic enthusiasm. Chill, dude. You're > harshin' the vibe. > > Where are the job offerings where we just want to do some stuff, slowly, > compromising quality, speed, and cost but with the flippance and laissez > faire of a stoned kid playing Stardew Valley? Or maybe the 60 year old > farmer with no kids who shambles from the bed to the tractor at dawn but > doesn't get all wound up about whether she'll live to see the next dawn? > These are the jobs I want. 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