[FRIAM] bro, please

[Steve Smith]

I guess there will be Optimus Prime instances filling the role of 
playing golf with customers/peers/superiors by playing with one 
another?   No reason a humanoid robot can't not just be trained to whack 
their balls around with sticks but also do it with the same signature 
style up to and including styles of cheating?  See Commander in Cheat 
<https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rick-reilly/commander-in-cheat/9780316528030/?utm_source=chatgpt.com>. 


When Musk was advertising for people to "train" these humanoid robots, I 
took it to mean gearing up to "teach by example" and encouraged Mary to 
check into it.  She is a consummate goathead weed-puller and it occurs 
to me that with the right IP agreements, one could spend a season 
shadowed by an OptimusPrime (or equivalent) and at the end be "set for 
life" on the $.001/weed royalties for every weed pulled by every 
instance anywhere forever?  I'm sure Musk doesn't offer shared IP...

I recently was corrected by (on of my favorite) favorite authors, 
Margaret Atwood, in the introduction to her recent Essay collection: 
"Burning Questions" on the (mis) attribution of "Golf: A good walk 
spoiled" to Twain when it was apparently instead WC Fields.   Noodling 
that out lead me to twain Twain *actual* golf-quip: "“It’s good 
sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still 
rolling.”   There are quite a few well known sources of such quips it 
would seem,   perhaps the biggest thing I've missed out on by being 
constitutionally averse to Golf?

Just a few:

    “I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
    — G.K. Chesterton

    “Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes
    out of a bagpipe.”
    — Lee Trevino“

    Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and
    hitting things with a stick.”
    — P.J. O’Rourke


On 10/24/25 12:12 pm, Santafe wrote:
> Boy, and I thought it was tough when Japanese office members are expected to go out golfing with each other on weekends to build team spirit.
>
> Can’t imagine a group of people I’d rather spend _my entire life_ around.
>
>> On Oct 24, 2025, at 13:45, Marcus Daniels<marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a little confused.   Musk says we'll leave it all to the robots and the AI and it will be green grass and sunny days.
>> But he has them doing this:
>>
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gncrypto.news%2fnews%2fxai-grokipedia-launch-engineers-camp-la%2f&c=E,1,-PImHvyEdNpLDkTl5C926uO5f20HSGkeU7X2mb-phARxllle8d-po_cQGNgBW3HyxhW2iPi6h0VeUkQTuC3Fz0Wzg1DAq0bCqSlCnjUoYw,,&typo=1
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>> What's the rush, man?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam<friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:34 AM
>> To:friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: [FRIAM] bro, please
>>
>> With the chaos at the NIH (and the whole fed, I guess), I find myself trolling job offerings. Methodologically, I'm lazy, somewhere between a cynic, a taoist, and an apatheist. And almost every job offer contains sentiments like this:
>>
>> "We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team." Hoorah! Get Pumped! Let's Goooooo! Yeeeeaaaaahhhh!
>>
>> OMG I'm so tired of it. I guess it's similar to toxic positivity. It's so refreshing when some rando at the pub vehemently disagrees with me. They're often surprised when I respond enthusiastically to their disagreeable nonsense. The same goes with this toxic enthusiasm. Chill, dude. You're harshin' the vibe.
>>
>> Where are the job offerings where we just want to do some stuff, slowly, compromising quality, speed, and cost but with the flippance and laissez faire of a stoned kid playing Stardew Valley?  Or maybe the 60 year old farmer with no kids who shambles from the bed to the tractor at dawn but doesn't get all wound up about whether she'll live to see the next dawn? These are the jobs I want. I'm the turtle and the world seems full of hares.
>>
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