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I was up late last night on the phone with the girl I'm maybe sorta kinda seeing.
I think the conversation had somehow taken a turn into automation-induced unemployment, to which one of her comments were that if we did achieve that, wouldn't that bump humanity up on the "scale"?
What scale did she mean, I asked.
(Is she talking about the Kardashev scale? Could that possibly be the case, or are you deluding yourself, SMH?)
Well, you know, the one that goes from 1, 2 to 3. And measures energy right? I think humans are like a 1 or 2?
Yep. That's the one. You have accidentally activated my trap card, or at the very least my special interest.
I know that going on to deliver an impromptu lecture on the true meaning of the Kardashev scale, that energy use isn't the best proxy for technological advancement, that humanity is a paltry 0.73 blah blah isn't the definition of rizz, but I just couldn't help myself. Fortunately, she did tell me that she liked it when I went on infodumps.
(If you can't tell, I'm a nerd)
For guys with the inclinations we have, it is an absolute imperative to marry women that at least sometimes enjoy the infodumps. Having the desire to share information rejected as uninteresting is the kind of thing that a guy can only take so many times.
This is a recipe for never getting married, because the kind of guy who enjoys nerdy infodumping considerably outnumbers the kind of woman who enjoys listening to nerdy infodumps.
Your wife doesn't have to share your interests, be your best friend, or anything like that; that's what your male friends are for. She needs to be good at the sorts of things a wife should be good at.
I mean, my wife doesn't love it when I start in on an infodump, but she married me anyway and we make it work. She has occasionally quoted Jen from The IT Crowd at me, specifically making white static noise at me or saying, "I want to stop listening to this," to bring me back to Earth, a behavior that I have encouraged so that she doesn't have to get ever-more lost in what I'm on about.
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