I was invited to a local church. I went, and had a good time… Good music… lots of energy. A friend invited me.
After, I had a “welcome interview” from one of the church heads.
He asked me my age FIVE TIMES! What is up with these people?
How many times can you politely rebuff a question before you say “Bu Guan Ni De Shi”… I was biting my tongue hard. I also nearly said “Wo meiyou lai zheli jiaowang”… lucky I learned how to shut up and smile. If Taipei has taught me anything, it’s how to shut up and smile.
He told me he needed my age so he could stream me into the right group…
Alright, fair enough… so I’m obviously not a high school student. Stick me in with the graduates if it pleases you. I dnt care.
I told him I worked teaching business English in the city center (which is true), and I’m researching AI with some friends / a private group. I just told him casually, as building AI characters on Chat GPT is my new hobby. He kept asking probing questions about that.
Apparently, I’m guessing, he was telling himself I was a lowly buxiban teacher trying to masquerade as an AI researcher.
Umm… no. I really do work in a business English institute, and I research AI on the side, mainly as a volunteer, sometimes paid. It’s fun, it’s my hobby. Beats Xvideos, right?
I have a Github with 79 Repos, tons of Readmes, and a metric ton of code. I could’ve shown him the ChatGPT characters I make right off the bat, or Repos in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Phoenix/Elixir and JS that I’ve maintained since 2015. The latest Readme I’ve made has close to 200 commits, and over 20 characters. Its all open source, I could’ve shown him there and then.
But no, apparently he was going to sleuth me out and expose me for the fraud I was…
um, ok.
I never told him I made cash off the AIs, I just hope to monetize that within a year. Why is that relevant at a happy clappy church, FFS? He told me he was “in the law business”, and I never asked him anything.
The conversation moved towards him visibly cringing, and ever so politely saying… “um… so you just work in a buxiban then?” - umm, no, jackass… I teach business English in a verified language school and I can prove it. The school has been mentioned on this forum, but I will not name them, to protect the guilty…
I don’t have a phone either. This apparently span him out…
He them politely-grilled me about how I contact people. I told him, “by email or by phone.”
Apparently not having a phone makes me some kind of galactic super-criminal.
I told him I don’t like modern technology… I like to go out in nature, and play music.
He again, visibly cringed, like he was talking to a mentally ill child…
And said… very slowly, and suspicious…
“So, … you … don’t … like … modern … technology, and you … build … AI … characters”
He said it with no humor, tact or panache. It wasn’t like English pub banter.
He said it in the spirit of a Dragon Elder finding the truth out about the expat fraud who had turned up on his doorstep.
Umm. yeah. ok.
What’s up with these people?
End Rant.
Spring has been good to me otherwise…
