Simply..IRL/URL

21/10/2024

I often comment on how much I love and appreciate the real thing - original art, live music, real food, face to face conversations, the wind and the weather. The other day on the porch a surprisingly warm gentle breeze, just enough to move my hair from my neck was delicious. Standing under the moon, a log fire...

My URL/online life is important to me too (this blog!) and the technology which helps me with vision loss - I am now registered partially sighted - is invaluable, and inproving all the time, but there is a dehumanising element to AI which is really disturbing. Why on earth would we want a machine to write poetry, or a robot to look after our elderly people?!

Rather than finding a work/life balance maybe we should focus on our IRL/UPL balance?

In Real Life I have holes in my socks. Lighten up Freda! ;-)

6 Comments

Susan inDorset

21/10/2024 11:46:38 pm

I apologise for not offering to darn your sock, Freda: my darning is appalling.
Useful concept IRL/URL: thank you.

Freda

23/10/2024 01:56:37 am

Not read it will remember darling!

Sheena

22/10/2024 05:02:38 am

Think you are right about AI being dehumanising but suspectmit is a human characteristic that if something can be done it is done without thinking of the consequences. I often wonder about the people who lose their jobs to a machine.
On the plus side maybe AI can learn to darn socks 😄.

23/10/2024 01:58:23 am

I think these ones are even beyond, darling!

Susan inDorset

22/10/2024 09:47:04 pm

I realise that I hadn't acknowledged your registration as partially sighted.
Well done for doing this Freda: it's a big step, yet one that will open up all sorts of resources to help you to continue with the activities that you love.

Freda

23/10/2024 01:59:55 am

There is lots of help out there, which is wonderful

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