I am a very self-interested person, in the following sense; I try to figure out what is best for me to do.

"best for me" here does not mean that I expect my actions to bring me wealth, pleasure, power or comfort, or something of that sort. It rather means that I take a much greater interest in the success of my own actions than those of others, for the simple reason that my own actions are the only ones I can directly control.

Will the availability of AI lead to a decline in people's ability to write and think? If so, how do you plan to prevent this from happening to you?

To the geometers, physicists and set theorists of the world, a question about the nature of space.

Consider two arbitrary points in space A and B, and consider the straight line running through A and B. Suppose you start walking from A towards B along this straight line, and the length of each of your steps is 1 yard.

Based on the information above, is it certain that you will reach B after having taken some finite number of steps?

I was going to quote Plato from time to time, but now I see that there's @Plato Quotes already. Let's see if I can compete with the AI.

Whole Foods sells a counterpart of everything I used to buy at a 7-Eleven. Brownies, twinkies, salted peanuts. The high calorie items are packaged in pink and labeled "sinful", so I guess that makes it ok.

Happiness is not a state, nor an activity, but a story. The things in your life have to fit together in a certain way.

The mainstream media has ceased to be mainstream.

桐野夏生の小説が好きな人がいる？「とめどなく囁く」を日本語で読もうとしている。漢字はやっぱり難しい。