I
did it then! A week of daily poems, which would not have been written had I not
set myself the challenge of doing so. Creativity is bred from deadlines.
Later today we are watching the Women's Euros Final as Mathew seems to have
developed an unexpected fascination with the England women's football team. We
have flags, we have snacks and we are grateful it kicks off at 5pm so he can
watch it all before bedtime. Philippa does like to keep things strict and
regular with pre-sleep routines, and I can't imagine the conflict that would
have ensued if she tried to drag him off to his bedroom halfway through the
second half or something.
I'm worrying less and less about AI as time goes by. Yes, it is already taking
jobs and destroying livelihoods, but the existential threat to human existence
is something I'm not so concerned about. Well, not so much anyway. I keep
panicking about it going past our level of intelligence and then creating its
own power source and wiping us out, etc, but actually, it's still only a
computer, that can only teach itself from human input, right? Yes, it
has access to all human input ever created and can process it all in a
millisecond, but it can't unlock secrets we haven't discovered yet because it's
all based on what WE'VE done. Right? Right? I can start sleeping again
and stop fretting about my children's future, right???
Back to less weighty stuff - my prediction is Spain 2 England 1.
RC 27-7-25
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