- stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- sessile - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
- insuperable - impossible to surmount; insurmountable
- quixotic - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; impulsive; whimsical
- malevolent - having or exerting a malignant influence
- antipathy - a feeling of intense dislike
- indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved (in a solution)
- inexpert - lack of professional skill or expertise
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Short story: That Thou Art Mindful of Him
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My mother once played ‘quixotic’ in Scrabble against my dad… using all seven letters (and one on the board) and hitting two triple word spaces.
That was the last time my dad played Scrabble.
Stultify and Sessile sound like DnD spells that do exactly what their definition is.
Is there a difference between indissoluble and insoluble? I’ve only ever used the latter.
Actually, I just looked it up:
<The word most likely to be used for things that cannot be dissolved in a liquid is “insoluble.” “Indissoluble” generally refers to abstract entities, such as promises or treaties, that cannot be dissolved.>
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/indissoluble-2013-04-11
That Thou Art Mindful of Him
This is the story with George Ten tasked to come up with a way to bring humans of Earth into coexistence with the positronic brain and the result was the positronic bird to save US Robotics. The story ends with George Ten and George Nine conspiring in an example of the AI Alignment problem. The story takes place when US Robotics has been around for two centuries long after Susan Calvin has passed. It’s a good story, especially for thinking about fundamental AI stuff.
