Making choices

If I may wax philosphic for a moment.....

(With Model Bernadette Bentley)

One of my concerns lately, as I sail the vast seas of social media, and debate the use of AI generation and LLM usage.... seems to be that people are less and less interested in making decisions for themselves. Decision fatigue is real, no doubt.

However, being able to make choices, and to just TRY SOMETHING is really the bedrock of our identities. All the outward manifestations of who we are come down to the choices we make. And more and more I'm seeing just an endless tide of people outsourcing those choices. There was the couple who let ChatGPT name their baby (that was an attention getting stunt, I know, but it's an indicator). There's folks in the Baldur's Gate 3 groups that I follow posting their characters and saying "What color hair should my next character have?" or "How should I handle this upcoming story element?". I dunno, man, just make a choice. You'll probably be fine. I see regular posts by friends saying "What should I do this weekend? What movie should I go see? What should I wear to this event?", and while I get some of that is just basic interaction, the sheer frequency of it is a little daunting.

We're told what to think nearly all day every day, and have been for a very long time. So often in life we have no power to make choices, let's make sure we take advantage of all the big and small times that we do have that power.

Thank you for coming to my FGPTalk.

(This post and these photos brought to you by an entire human brain, making choices, and possibly even mistakes, every step of the way, and not by crowdsourcing or AI generation.)