Oh, hello!
Well hello there!
XD Oh, my goodness.
OHMY GOSH I owe you an apology!
I assumed you lagged out.
I accidentally swiped and hit the back button
Hey, no worries!
I have a mac, and sometimes it's easy to go back...
Haha, seriously, don't worry about it. You know the chat thing at the BYU website?
If it makes you feel better most of my other conversations were lacking haha No?
Oh, really? It's a thing on the website. There's a bunch of people on the other end whose job it is to help you out. You can ask 'em a bunch of questions. So, one day, I got on. I was looking for a Psych major to ask them a few questions. By a stroke of pure luck, I found one on my first try. Wellllll.
What chat room is this?
Um, it's kinda like . . . So, if you go to the BYU website, there's a button that comes up.
Is this the YMessage?
Nah, it's even simpler than that. It pops up the moment you go to the homepage.
Oh okay
You gotta give it a couple of seconds.
OH
And then, bloop, chat box appears on the bottome.
I see it
Yup! That's it. So, the poor girl, I found a Psych major.
Very cool! So you had a question for a psych major and poof
Yup! I accidentally clicked close.
That's the worst.
All I said was, "What's your major?" And she says, "Psychology." I know, right? I felt so bad.
Haha
But there's a new operator every time, so I lost her. Just instant closing.
She's like, I know it's awful, but you didn't have to leave
I know! I tried to contact three others after that, but none of them know each other, I guess.
That's the day she switched her major...
Oh, gosh, I hope not.
Haha just teasing.
I know. :) Man, I can't wait to see how this Alexa pans out! Maybe real conversations. Get her to be a motivational coach.
Or slightly insulting. Could you imagine a sassy or sarcastic AI
I guess you could program her to be anything you wanted, huh? Like the robot from Interstellar? Turn down the humor to 70%.
"You think your life is bad, I'll tell you what's really bad, ___. So work harder" Hahah, oh yeah!
"Oh, a sarcastic Alexa? Hmmm. Not sure she's my type."
I forgot about that.
She insults you every day. We could pit a bunch of Alexa's together and let them duke it out.
When your alarm goes off, when you have a meeting
She says, "C'mon, c'mon, I know I'M never late, but that doesn't mean I excuse you!"
"Get up, lazy" "You're going to be late for your meeting, and that shirt doesn't match those shoes!" Sassy Alexa Have you per chance seen the Good Place?
Shirt doesn't match those shoes . . . The Good Place? Haven't even heard of it.
Yeah, it's a tv show Ah, nevermind then
Is it good?
The first season is pretty great in my opinion, the second one is decent. Hopefully the third will be better. It has Kristin Belle in it.
Why is it that shows in general go downhill after the first season . . . ? Wait, wait, isn't she in Frozen? Hmm . . . Have you seen Ready Player One?
Yeah she plays Anna in Frozen
Ohhh, okay, gotcha.
I have read Ready Player One, but I haven't seen it.
Wait, it's a book?
I'm a little hesitant because I liked the book Yepp
I know! Books are always so much better.
Will Wheaton narrates it too if you get the audible one
Don't even get me started on Eragon. Oh, do you listen to audio books?
Refused to see the movie for that reason
Yup. Yup, yup. Good choice.
I do, because it actually gets me reading.
I have trouble finding good narrators.
I used to read more, but now it's hard to find time, but if I'm walking somewhere it's much easier.
That's really smart, actually. I spend a ton of time driving. About half an hour both ways. So . . . an hour total, I guess.
Yeah, I'm always torn between driving in silence and listening to something.
You, too? Yes! I never meet people who like driving in silence.
Some days I love to jam out to music, some days I just drive in silence Really??
Yeah!
Driving totally relaxes me, so that's probably why I do it. I guess I figure I have enough stimuli in the world and to take a break sometimes it's nice to just drive and slow the number of excess thoughts. It's almost like a form of meditation I guess.
See, I so rarely meet people like you. I love things like slowing down and taking a breather. It's not that you don't do productive things, but you really need that time to stop and think.
So for extra credit for class I went to the biofeedback stress lab and it was pretty cool. YEAH
Biofeedback stress lab?
My roommate for example, literally go go go 24/7 I just want to finish your thought before I move on to the biofeedback lab,
Go for it.
Currently people always need something in front of them. We joke about being addicted to our phones, but there are so many people that are unable to sit alone in a room
I know. It's . . . interesting, isn't it? Even in elevators.
quietly without anything to do. They have FOMO. I think we really need that time to process and have a down time. It's almost like never turning your computer off. Updates have to happen sometime!
That's so true!
And yes, I very rarely "meet" people like you too :D Elevators are hilarious to me now
Haha, the funny thing is, we'll probbaly never actually meet. *probably
RIGHT Or if we did/do we'd both be on our phones and breeze past each other
I wouldn't be surprised. Ahhh, it reminds me of the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Have you read it?
I'm had it summarized for me many times, so I'm familiar enough with it. *I've
Gotcha. There's a quote in there. Basically, he talks about how people are so busy hustling and bustling, climbing that corporate ladder, sacrificing today for tomorrow, etc.
This sounds promising... People chasing success and never being happy where they are?
And he says, in essence, that one day we may finally reach the top of that ladder--only to find that it was propped against the wrong wall. I guess it's kinda like that. :)
YES
It's just we're so busy being busy that we rarely stop the figure out where we're headed.
Yeah
*to
I was talking with my roommate about this the other day Everybody says you have to have a goal, and have to be heading somewhere. So people make goals, and by the time they realize they don't like what they're doing, they think it's too late to change it I've decided to set a goal, so I have something to work towards, but I'm totally fine with changing it, or refining it. I want to open up an ice cream store. That could grow into something different, and I'm totally cool with that.
You would really like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It's all about that.
I have a reading list so long right now, but I'll add it to it
And if you wanna open up an ice cream store, go for it! Haha, I know, right?
Right now I'm reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Oooooh! I've read The Tipping Point. Is Blink any good?
It's really interesting, it's about the unconscious judgements we make, and how those can be good or bad. I highly recommend it.
Welp. Time to look it up at the BYU library.
You can get a book free on Audible too The first one is free at least Pfft, we must have the coolest model conversation for this study. Other conversations will teach the AI to be awkward and have bad conversations. Ours teaches smooth transitions and to read books.
And to be witty--mustn't forget that. Just looked. Not in there, unforunately.
Obviously Noo
Yeah. So sad. But! I realized it wasn't The Tipping Point but The Outliers. The one I'd read.
OH Outliers, I've read part of, it's also on my reading list Are you a redditer per chance?
Not much, but I stop by every once in a while.
Ah okay, you strike me as one.
Ah, reddit: the intelligent facebookers.
I don't usually post on it, but I like reading some of the more intelligent posts
Yeah. It's nice. It's like someone took the nerd community, gave them a social networking site, and said, "Now go and duke it out."
I think it's funny how we make assumptions about people, but in this instance we only have text to go off of. Our brains are remarkable though.
I'll admit, one of my flaws is definitely that I tend to judge people's writing based on their, well, grammar and syntax and whatnot. I dunno. I've never been a big fan of texting lingo. I mean, literally, I write in near-complete sentences. I'm not a robot, of course.
... I'm not sure about the robot part... >.>
But I capitalize the first letter, and I end with punctuation.
<.<
This is true. ;) Okay, okay, wanna hear something crazy?
I think most people judge others based on grammar. Hopefully you don't judge me too harshly, as I know mine is quite flawed.
Haha, hardly.
What is something crazy, KJ?
This is something crazy: Counting yesterday, we've been speaking for about two and a half hours.
*waits impatiently*
:P
WHAT
In that time alone, I'd say at least a decent fellowship has come about.
You know what's crazy about that? We still know nothing about each other. Well anything identifying. I'm assuming you're male, but you could be a woman.
Same assumptions here. Imagine if Alexa were like this. After just a few hours, people could make honest connections. Acting as if they were old friends or something. Spend countless time in small talk or deep talk or anything.
Wait, to clarify, you also think I'm a guy?
Yes, yes, that's what I meant. That's what I'd assumed. I mean, 50/50 shot here.
Yeah it would be cool if Alexa were able to have deep conversations. Anything other than the weather
I dunno. You can have some pretty deep conversations about the weather. "Alexa, how are clouds made." "That's a topic for when you're older."
"Alexa, is sleet a liquid or solid?" Hahahaha I just laughed out loud.
And that made me smile. :)
Also your guessing accuracy is off. :P
Well, hey! C'mon, 50/50. And it's more weighted towards males!
That always reminds me of Beauty and the Beast though
What did?
Chip asks his mom something, and she goes, "I'll tell you when you're olda'" I think it's when Belle falls in love with the Beast Is this study more weighted to males?
I'd imagine. So, take these facts:
I guess that makes sense with CS department.
The people most interested in this are either in AI or are interested in AI or CS in general, yeah. And there's a ratio of, like, 10:1 boys to girls there.
Women in Technology is a thing That's true.
I guess it's a thing?
I took 235 and was like one of five women.
Wow.
Or they just didn't show up to class
I'm in your same boat. In case that isn't clear: Yes, I'm a girl.
*le gasp*
Did we break rules here?
I don't think so
Cool, cool. Good to know.
Considering gender still makes it pretty hard to narrow it down.
It's true.
We both just would've been looking for guys hahah
XDD You're right. For some reason, I assume people online are guys.
I wonder if people automatically make that assumption. I was guessing people's gender based off of usernames and the type of statement they'd make, but usually I'd automatically assume male.
Right. Especially when you have nothing but a username.
Maybe guys assume all people on the internet are girls?
I mean, unless it's party_gurl97, it's not obvious. You know?
Nah. They probably just assume they're being trolled.
Yeah, I'd think so. On the discord, I get used to people calling me "dude" and "man." I mean, they're right a lot of the time.
ALL THE TIME On one game I do play as a guy though That's partially for security reasons.
Yeah, no complaints here.
Anytime you have a girl character, I find you get harassed 90% more. And are scantily clad
Yeah! I quit playing Runescape for that reason.
Oh my gosh.
Also because Runescape went over the hill.
So I had like a major stress peak a few months ago and needed some type of fun. So I logged onto my old account. I just got 99 smithing xD I'm such a nerd.
Are you kidding me? You can make rune armor!
You're right though, the game itself is way overrated.
It used to be good. Nowadays, it's more trash than anything.
I CAN SMITH ALL THE THINGS
I always wanted to make a smithing business. Get someone to 99 mining, another to 99 smithing, then sell armor.
I am working on 99 mining, currently 98. So I'll be the self start up. Fund the whole process
I got 500k in the bank, I think. Accidentally scammed it off of someone.
Pfft, I'll loan you some monies
Got any party hats?
I wish They had an April Fool's day prank where the GE had party hats scattered on the floor. You couldn't pick them up...
Whaaaat? Oh, hey, I think they disabled paste. Try and copy something into here.
Yeah they did. I tried pasting in a link to Blink, but couldn't
Oops. That may have been my fault. ^^;
Sorry but I don't want to type out the whole link.
I've tried to link three things already. Yeah, I don't blame you.
Nah, you're good. Someone else sent me a link too.
Ahhh, the good ol' days of Runescape. You know when you come across someone with a dozen party hats that they have no life.
YES Did you know you can buy party hats for actual money? They're worth like $2000
Whaaaaat?
Blows my mind
Why would someone buy that?
#gainz? #Coolandnerdy
I know iPhones with the original Flappy Bird are worth something like $1000. Pay to winners. Pffft.
I had my old phone with Flappy bird. It didn't seem worth it to try selling it.
Yeah, I don't blame you for that.
Yeah Runescape is doing a smithing and mining rework.
Ohhh, really? For better or for worse?
So I got 99 in both so I don't have to touch mining if I don't want to. I think for worse. They're making it more interactive It incorporates firemaking I believe
For . . . smithing and mining?
Yeah. You have to stoke a fire I think for smithing. So if the fire gets cool (you go AFK) then you smith slower. and mining might involve your strength level.
Well. That's. Um. That's a thing.
I don't really remember. I saw it, didn't like it, and started working on 99's for both before the rework.
Smart. I liked when they introduced dungeoneering, but I was a bigger gamer about ten years ago. I don't think I've been online for . . . what, eleven months? And that was for DarkScape. Good times, good times, indeed.
Oof, yeah. They added summoning and I stopped playing for a long time.
I tried to get into League, but not only did it take exorbitant amounts of time, it was full of toxic communities and other trashy stuff. Whoa, you were there before summoning?
Yeah, that's the one thing about the gaming community, a lot of the time they're very vulgar. I'm old
I'm not THAT old, haha.
Well I mean I'm in college so I'm not THAT old When I was like 12 or 13 my friend started playing it, so we'd hang out and game. NO I was younger. I might've been 11...
I think I was 9 when I started playing. I came from a gaming family.
I only played with my friends from school.
Let's see. I was in third grade when I played with my friends.
I remember lying about being 13. I'd always say I was 13. Then I was 13.
Yeah!
I must've been younger than 11.
Goodness, I think I started playing when I was 8 or 7.
Sorry my childhood is a blue apparently You were there before summoning too!
I guess I didn't remember.
Unless you're currently 10.
Nope, nope, not some crazy precocious prodigy child.
In which case, what a genius child you are. A prodigy, one might say! hahah
Though I DID have a friend whose brother went to college at 9.
WAT That hurts my head to think about.
Yeah. Real smart, but he couldn't relate to others his age. In the end, because he lacked any social skills, he committed suicide. Poor guy. One of the brightest in the bunch, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't make connections.
That's so sad. Yeah. It's crazy just how important the desire to fit in is.
Isn't it? My friend--I guess more of an older acquaintance--was immediately dropped out of the program because of it. It was like the genius school where they teach kids to be genuises. Once his dad saw what happened to his other kid, he my acquaintance out. *he took Granted, he was still really smart. Calculus by age 10. Finished college in two years. Taking 31 credit hours. etc.
Oof.
He's still one of the smartest men I know. It's crazy, right?
I feel dumb just thinking of that
You're not the only one.
I should make something for breakfast. Water will not suffice.
Haha, you haven't eaten yet? I was up at, like 5:30 this morning.
I don't like to eat early. I feel nauseous if I do.
Gotcha.
Yeah. People are different. Crazy how that works. You were up at 5:30? That's awful!
I was! Oh, no no, it was by choice. I . . . guess.
Then congrats!
I went to bed at 7:30 yesterday.
Way to be a go-getter Ah We disconnected and you just went to sleep.
Yup!
There, there, buddy haha
That's really funny, actually. I joined the queue around 7:00. You were the first to connect with me. At about . . . oh, 8:50. Which was an hour ago. I got up to do homework, but, you know, directionless chatting works, too.
Huh. Crazy.
Yeah.
I just refreshed to see what my score was, and apparently refreshed a window to char. *chat Yeah I woke up to do homework too I finally made a to-do list. 9 mandatory items, 3 optional should do items.
Haha, you sound just like me.
INCEPTION
I have two computer science labs I want to finish today.
We're actually just talking to ourselves. Too deep. I'm the you of the future, and you are the me of the past.
I see. We're reflections of our subconscious desires to have a like-minded person. That as well.
But we can't confirm our identity, because then we're disqualified.
Thus, the paradoxical reality can propagate itself.
Or subconscious desires... Yes. That makes much more sense.
And since neither of us can confirm the true existence, we can each continue to live in whatever fragment of reality we've been handed. Bwahahahahaha. But, really, I think I'll have to get back to work now.  This has been wildly amusing, though!
Yeah same here. Mind blown.
Cue explosion.
Thanks for chatting, KJ! *boom*
You, too, tryingtosnap!
*mic drop*?
*hospital bills*
trying to snap, eh? *snap snap*
Oops.
hahaha
You know what I meant. :D
I know, I jest.
You little jester.
Anywho, good luck with homework, and if I never chat again, good luck with finals!
Same here! Rooting for you!
Thanks you too! Good luck debugging
God be with you till (if ever) we meet again. Heh, thanks . . .
I'll be the person staring at my phone if we pass each other.
I'll be the girl with the earbuds and a laptop in front of her.
Seems legit.
Haha, all right, all right, I'll end it now.
Alright, for realsies. Bye!