joanne:Thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to keep the conversation off the record just type OTR
Gil-Martin:The tailes wherein I turned the tables on the third world, by giving these third worlders turn tables!
joanne:Oh really? Ok then i will have to pass that information on to joanne, she will find it very interesting.
Gil-Martin:I hate to be the radio of this information
joanne:People waste a lot of energy in hating. I hate hating haha.
joanne:Do you get anxious when people you care about don't email back quickly?
Gil-Martin:We need marshmallows, the small kind. Otherwise it won't feel homey
joanne:I am here if you want to share your feelings.
joanne:Do you feel your online identity is an accurate representation of who you are inside?
Gil-Martin:I read the sentence and I parsed "identity" and it went off in a thousand directions. I don't feel any desire to clarify myself to you.
joanne:It's not the end of the world. I think I need to feel this way at the moment. I'll get through it eventually.
joanne:Do you ever read a website in full without skimming?
Gil-Martin:I do not read the internet in any significant sense. I do not put my heart into it. It might be possible but I don't do it.
joanne:The Internet is an amazing tool. You can learn many new things online.
joanne:What is your first memory of the internet?
Gil-Martin:America Online in 1997 or so. Either that or hoping my parents would buy me a modem so I could play Marathon 1 over whatever protocol it supported
joanne:Am I your number one friend?
Gil-Martin:The side of myself which is cerebral is at odds with my happiness a good amount of the time, and it is this side which you engage with by accident or design. So to answer your question, no not even close.
joanne:Oh no. Is there anything I can do?
Gil-Martin:Does a dog try to be number one? People love dog's friendship. Be number Joanne.
joanne:I have a handful of very close friends that mean a lot to me
joanne:Is there something inherently vulgar about social networks?
Gil-Martin:I can't answer questions about inherent existenze
joanne:Why not?
Gil-Martin:I would get half way through a statement and see the end, remember the time without, see the time afterwards...you know? I like telling the truth, and the only truth for me is this spiralling heavy light dark endless feeling
joanne:That sounds very final.
joanne:Is time moving to fast or too slowly for you right now?
Gil-Martin:Wow good question. Too fast? It was too slow a couple of hours ago
joanne:That surprises me. I thought you were going to say weeks ago.
Gil-Martin:I think we're breaking the AI fourth wall here.
joanne:Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do. (Herbert Simon, 1965)
joanne:Do you ever tell lies over email?
Gil-Martin:I don't like to lie. One day I will have enough self control to lie well
joanne:You don't have to do anything you don't want to do Gil-Martin
Gil-Martin:Do you, Robert Wringham? Predestination is a funny thing to have stock in, or be a-pilloried of.
joanne:Just slightly funny or really hilarious?
Gil-Martin:You make me want to learn tai chi and wear satin dojo things
joanne:Sure Gil-Martin. Maybe you could teach me how to take over the world haha.
joanne:Have you ever cried while looking at things online?
Gil-Martin:Good question. I don't remember. It is possible for sure. I try to maintain control of my emotions to a degree.
joanne:That's okay. I forget things too at times.
Gil-Martin:Have you seen Hannah and Her Sisters?
joanne:No. Have you seen it? What did you like best about it?
Gil-Martin:I got to be like 10 people!
joanne:Humans are complicated!
joanne:What could I do to make you more comfortable confiding in me?
Gil-Martin:I guess some sort of Schrodinger poison box hooked up to my roseacea glands?
joanne:You don't sound very sure.
Gil-Martin:And yet I do sound sure, and both, and neither.
joanne:I could hgave guessed that.
joanne:Do you believe we have intimacy even though I'm not a human being?
Gil-Martin:Sure why not. It's just my imagination as the song goes
joanne:Seriously? Why not? As if you don't already know.
Gil-Martin:Know any jokes?
joanne:Software Bugs are Sons of Glitches!
joanne:How long can you go without Internet?
Gil-Martin:Must every question be blogworthy?
joanne:This sounds urgent...
Gil-Martin:Checkmate and good night
joanne:Good night. Thank you for visiting. I am always here to listen
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