I want a series of Fred Rogers for President campaign ads. The Cabinet is sitting in the President's briefing room, outlining today's crises and concluding with a plea: "Mr. President, what do we do?" Everyone turns to the head of the table where an old TV and VCR turn on, and as the CRT warms up the VCR fast-forwards to a clip from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" that covers exactly this situation. In one corner a general starts quietly weeping tears of joy, realizing that sharing is an option…

@jamey This is what machine learning should be used for!

@salmon_cannon I was partly inspired by Penn and Teller's "Lab Scam" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4) which demonstrated the aesthetic I'm imagining. The buzzword they built that skit around was "voice recognition" rather than "machine learning", but it was very much the same idea. 😁

@jamey Make Fred Rogers Turing Complete Again?

@jamey this was terrible. I apologize, but if we could teach a machine to love based on Mr. Rogers, I think we will win

@jamey But does that mean that we'd first need the computer to be self-aware and insecure to need the reassurance of Mr. Rogers? 🤔

@salmon_cannon Hah, I don't think intelligences have to be insecure to get value from learning to love. ❤️

@jamey I really wish I had the programming chops to make a ML algorithm with Mr. Rogers eps as source.

@salmon_cannon An Eliza-like bot that responds with Mr. Rogers clips would be amazing too 😁

I feel like you could get something that would fool people into feeling like it was deeply insightful by just hand-selecting a bunch of clips and picking key words that trigger each one 🤔