David Boree
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This was an unsuccessful step in my child's development.
Maybe no more pets for a while.
Maybe no more pets.
Gwyn also spent way too much time online, which is how they wound up reading hundreds of theoretical articles about how AGI, artificial general intelligence, would destroy the world.
And again, AGI is like a mainstream term now because fucking ChatGPT came out a couple of years ago and everyone started talking about it.
At this point, 2016, 17, it's only like people who are really into the industry in a nerdy way who are using that frame.
Like regular people on the street don't know what you fucking mean when you're talking about this stuff.
But this is a term that is in use among them.
And like Ziz, Gwen moved to the Bay Area to get involved in fixing the problem.
They were an otherkin.
Are you familiar with this online community?
Which one?
Otherkin.
Otherkin?
No, I have no, I've never heard of that.
It's like the Mormonism of furrydom almost.
I don't know what I mean.
It's harmless, right?
These are people who there's a mix of beliefs.
Some of them literally believe they're fantasy creatures.