Two Arrows

> In some way, I feel like whether you eat the same thing every day or not is a fundamental character trait.  < Perhaps because needing to pursue new is different from tolerating it? > Exactly. In the comfort-worship life tends to devolve into, requirements matter more than possibility. < You don't seem to have much faith. > I'm just following the example of what happens when I did. < You aren't very novel, either.

< Why am I not rich? > Riches aren't happiness. < Why do people exist who remember their whole lives perfectly? > To their great misery. < Why must the world be so unjust? > So we have a point of comparison. < Why do I lack happiness? > In some strange way, it is by your own volition.

> You know why people wear sunglasses? < Why? > For the same reason people say, "White lie". > Because the eyes are the windows to the soul. < What? > Think about it. That's vulnerability. That's weakness. That's humanity. Who wants that? < People who aren't sociopaths? > When I look at man, I see an arms race between deception, penetration, and manipulation. Sunglasses take one step ahead. < I thought it was just if it was bright outside. > That too.

< What's all this ChatGPT about? > Imagine being mediocre at everything. < Really? > That involves text. > You need other AIs for other stuff. < Wow.  > Ain't it?

 > Why are people scared by bugs? < I think it comes down to empathy. If you can't really put your head into them, you don't like them. > Like how spiders?  < Exactly - they're very different anatomically.  > Seems like a nice way to live. < But now I have to dodge the roaches while I walk.

> Bro, are you a conservative? NPC. < You're a liberal? Not a good look. > I prefer apolitical art. < All art is implicitly political. It's just that we sometimes happen to agree. > I mean, people are just happening to put their views more into things nowadays. < What's the line between politics and perspective? > I dunno... < We used to disagree on the details. Now, we disagree on the details. The slang's divide's just an indicator of this. < Maybe we'll end up with differing languages at this rate. > Finally, again will art agree with me.

< I need information! > I need action! < But we'll be confused! > But we won't do anything with it! < Fine.

> They say coffee's healthy. < They said cigarettes were too. > But people I trust say this! < And other people you trust say the opposite. > What am I to do? < Water it down halfway, maybe?

< Do you remember the time before intuition? It feels like more and more is done automatically, and better than I ever could. > I am not memory, but I know what you mean. You lost the battle but you weren't the war. Someone else has been taking over. < Did they learn the lessons I forgot? > Your noisy mind makes you blind. In their quietness, incredible nuance, incredible memory is possible. < But how can the enlightened speak to me? > Through visions, strange desires, emphases, dreams. Sometimes, they can even speak. Though you have to listen. You are force, and they have none. < Shh! I'm trying to listen. > To me.

> One < Zero > Two < Negative One > Three < Negative Two > We're supposed to be making progress! < No, we need to return to tradition. 

> So when I see green... < Of course, I see green too. > But what if it's actually red and it's mislabeled for you? < Well, it's just a label. > But think about it. Red means aggression. Purple means royalty. If those true "natural" meanings are out of sync with the labels... < They don't seem to be. > Are the agreed meanings of color a commonality, or simply an aggregate? 

 > Did you watch that movie? < Uh, sometime. > You've watched High School Musical 17 times. < Much like how water is free. I can't drink wine all the time. > You literally just sit and watch something.  < I prefer comfort over novelty. > It's a screen either way, dude.

> SLEEP ALREADY! It's been 3 hours! < So what? Put it on the calendar. Nothing really changes that. It's time to process the day that has passed. > Maybe if I overload the visualizer. Maybe if I kick the visualizer. Maybe if I count upwards. > If I build infrastructure for this, right, put that there... < Now we're wide awake. > God damn it

> Willpower! < Willpower... > We have willpower! Use it! < We are limited by our willpower, we musn't! > Try harder! < Conserve! < What if we do both? > No!

> Is it tomorrow? < No, it's today. > It says AM on the clock. < That's a lie. The new day starts at 1 AM. > But it SAYS AM.  < The day starts at 1! > The day starts at 0. The 12's just there for show.  < I bet the computer agrees with me. > ... < Oh. 

> so now i talk like this  < Why? Grammar is good. > youre just being grammatical out of insecurity < It hurts my eyes. > cuz ur like 'ha im not a guy who is not grammatical, im smart' < You are abusing the english language. > nobodys going to say when you die 'wow he sure did follow grammar rules even in this comic' < It looks right! > why do you care about the look < Performative rebellion doesn't impress me.

> I don't have free will. < You chose to say that. > I am a mere toy of causality, a slave of influences I coincide across. < Whether or not that is true is irrelevant. What matters is the influence upon your action. > What do you mean? < By believing you have no free will, you lose the ability to freely will. In two equal situations, this belief would steer you two different ways.  > But free will itself is a mere toy of causality. < Maybe we have free will, maybe we don't. So be influenced, or freely choose, to have free will.  > But I'd rather be a victim.

> Have you ever tried looking behind your eyes? < Nope. That's physically impossible. > But think about it! What's the difference between perception you can see, and perception you cannot? < Just because you know how seeing something feels in one defined area does not mean you can copypaste it into a different arbitrary "area".  > Then what's feeling? What's seeing? It's all just nerve stimulations. < ...

> You know, I want to watch review reviews. < Why?  > Well, think about it. Why take the risk of new experience when you can just steal someone else's impression? < Uh. > This is the direction of the future, gramps. I want insight without thought, opinion without consideration, significance without distinction.  < Life 8/10. Good graphics. Needs balancing adjustment. > Seems kinda boring.