I’m not sure. Maybe. Sometimes. I don’t know.

I can only tell you that my best results have come from replying with a neutral “Thank you”, then repeating the questions. I prefer it when they answer all my questions, but ultimately, if I want answers, I need to persist, and so I do.

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Would you enjoy it even if he didn’t care? Would you enjoy it even if he leaned against it?

If yes, why?

Perhaps trying to answer these questions would help you clarify your feeling about it.

Forget “affirmative voice” for a moment, since that seems to be tripping others up as well as you. Prompt Engineering suggest sounding like the LLM, asking questions with “the same voice” as the one the LLM uses to respond. Perhaps PE needs to clarify this with some examples, because calling it “affirmative voice” hasn’t seemed to make it clear enough.

I suggest asking them, then perhaps sharing what you learn for the benefit of other folks who are similarly confused.

The only interpretation that comes to my mind is avoiding “not” and “don’t”. Ask for what you want instead of what you don’t want. 🤷 That’s just a guess.

I was going to suggest turning their phone, but that’s much better.

Typically, yes. Pronunciation mistakes are not ruled incorrect unless they change the spelling of the name or word, such as adding consonants. Ken corrects the pronunciation without calling the mistake out, usually, although he labors under strange conceptions, such as insisting in not pronouncing the initial “t” in “tsunami” and “tsar”.

When I have the option, I am always the cat.

People can choose. It is even better when they choose.

It’s fairly well established that experiencing the moment does more to promote one’s mental health than not.

I don’t tip businesses, I tip people. Some of those people own the business.

If you underpay people to rely on tips, you’re just playing the game on a harder level.

This is the dark side of Nudge theory. People need to practise refusing and it will stabilize. I tip handsomely when I want to and I refuse when I don’t. Sometimes I feel irrational guilt. I sit with the guilt for a while, then it’s gone.

Tip when you want as much as you want and no more. Refuse to listen to anyone who tells you that this is morally wrong.

Peace.

The alternative is certain death. If I were satisfied with that outcome, I’d already be dead.

There is an emerging field of research that reframes addiction as a reasonable reaction to traumatic conditions. This doesn’t explain all addiction, but it seems to explain a large amount of it. We are learning how complex a condition addiction can be and that makes it easier to feel compassion for these folks.

A hopeful path towards peace for people who struggle with stress at their job.

There’s a certain amount of Gambler’s Fallacy in this, too: I’ll keep going, because it’s going to turn around.

You want candy?

As for the difference, there’s a lot more Learned Helplessness in the Republic of Gilead than there is in, say, northern Europe. 🤷‍♂️

Would bookmark folders suffice for organizing?

Or go retro and have a tree of bookmarks as an unordered list, with the top level of the tree as the folders or categories.

It influences folks subconsciously, which in legal proceedings with a significant public relations component, is powerful and effective. It’s even better to influence people without their conscious awareness that it’s happening. And yes, some folks aren’t taken in by it, but a surprising number are. It would be tantamount to legal malpractice not to advise your client to try. 🙄

I have drunk some decades old bottles of wine. I was worried each time that the bottle had become undrinkable, but not that it had become dangerous.

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