Sid the Timid, Brian the DM

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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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“Well, we’re working in Albuquerque, New Mexico and just outside to this place that we’re working, this kind of a warehouse place, is a payphone. Now, first, who sees a payphone anymore? And there’s a single payphone right on the sidewalk and I thought it was a prop and so did he. He went over and it’s like this is real. So, he tweeted that he was going to be at this payphone for the next ten minutes. Call him. And he got call after call. He got a call from Australia, The Philippines, England, Boise, Iaho. He got a call from everywhere. As soon as he hung up, boom, another call.  And he would answer it in his costumary character: “Yo, bitch!” And I’m walking past and he’s waving me over and I come and he said “Talk to them, talk to them!” and I got on I said “This is Walter White. You’re taking my associate away from his duties. I’m gonna come over to pay you a visit unless you hang up right now.” They’re screaming, they’re screaming. They can’t believe it. But he’s done that several times.“

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.