If you have a venmo or other money-transfer method, consider cash.

While a thoughtful gift is nice, cash is flexible. Enough small gifts, and one can flee home…

With no particular authority (or endorsement), just what I’ve used:

Something I’m grateful for.

An update on a (usually work related) project I care about.

A cool program I learned about recently.

A policy that really would make life better.

What a particular emotion feels like to me, where it happens, and an image that fits it (use a list of emotions from somewhere).

What I spent the most time on that day, and how I think my relationship with it is.

A haiku (or 3) about something that happened today.

Game design ideas

I do those too! That’s where the ideas for new architectures, datasets, and training tweaks come from! Math is fun, and it’s fascinating that math can talk sometimes.

Edit: And I see now that we’re editing messages after people reply? Rude, no? Designing a hallucinating machine certainly doesn’t rot your brain.

I think in a non market economy I would still work on language models. It’s cool that a machine can hold a conversation.

downvoters: is it wrong?