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This is so fascinating, Helen. I adore your writing and ideas!

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Awww thank you Silvio! You are too kind --- hopefully I make it worth you time with every post and idea!

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Of course! Whenever a post of yours comes in, if I don’t have the time, I MAKE the time. And I read it right away.

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Found this really thought provoking Helen - a great take and genuinely curious to read the next installments.

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Thank you Adrian! Your kind words really mean a lot to me. Hopefully I can keep things interesting for you -- be fun and be thought-provoking, that's what I'm going for. So let me know if the pieces ever bore you haha :D

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"But we know for certain that no god will come out of the crane to make everything on stage a happy-ever-after."

I love the way you're tackling AI, Helen. Looking forward to the rest of your essays. I loooooved this one. You gave me some hearty laughs.

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Awww Sandra! Thank you so much for your kind words -- this is certainly a huuuge confidence booster b/c I've never thought I could be funny or humorous haha. Thank you for this life- and sense-of-humor-affirming comment! :D I'll keep doing better and more interesting things so you can have more hearty laughs ;)

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This made me laugh out loud on the Gods of this world and religions of this world, the priests and believers alike "Seemingly divine in nature, these improbable last-minute solutions in fiction are antidotes to our hard-knock real lives.".

Although this time, AI does have humans behind them, and believers do know about them. Instead of paranormal, the fear is from the science.

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Totally agreed, Charu! People are always scared of the unknown, be it from the paranormal to the scientific.

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Loved learning about some history around theater and it was such a good metaphor to the questions surrounding AI. “Why is this crane here?” I want to flag that now every time I see a new tool emerge.

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Hahah Michelle you read my mind about the spoiler planted here for a later part of this series! We gotta be best buddies ;)

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haha yes! I was hoping I was getting incrementally smarter reading your newsletters, and this comment confirms it. Yay to best buddies!

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