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Pipes and Cigars and Tobacco

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Discussion of tobacco pipes and cigars.

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Doesn’t quite “get it” obviously but the elements are there.

So how could a computer understand smoking? (Or fingers…)

My first thought is you need an organic system that responds to all the stimuli. Feel of the pipe, heat, smell, taste, and the bodily response to the chemicals.

Then I thought, the computer might need to be able to suffer. To know stress, hurry, doubt, fear. Then to have an experience that elevates condition.

First a distraction of small details. Attention to moment. Chronology warps, wafts, disperses. Adrift gently in the eye of a storming world.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When you get the instructions for seasoning a pipe with the instructions for seasoning a cast iron skillet confused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what was the prompt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Something like: a smoking pipe with red embers and cigars and tabacco in background

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hah, I char my rims, too.