A test that should be useful

[raiph]

An opening comment that should be useful.

[raiph]

A follow up comment that should be useful.

[raiph]

A messy draft that should be useful.

✅😍 Ramona empathized with your problem statement, and solution, and enjoyed the accuracy, precision, and concision of your prose. You literally made me smile. However, she also empathizes with Lucy, and chooses to enjoy her company, so chose not to also vote with our left hand (👍), despite her enthusiasm for almost everything else about your issue.

😐 Lucy, as she is wont to do, said "Butt...". Sam had to do my work to keep my right hand on the keyboard and stop her voting with my right hand (👎).

❓💪 Hi, I'm Sam. Let me try explain. Our Lucy literally trips on the word should. She said "The title, opening problem statement comment, and solution(s) of a PS repo issue should try and avoid opinions and instead focus on facts." I said she should relax -- and she glared at me. Butt I know Lucy well, and her point is that this issue's title immediately divides readers into two adversarial black-and-white camps: agree, or disagree before discussion even begins.

Hi, I'm, raiph and about 30 years ago I set up both a technical and metaphoric internal model of humans, and thus of myself, and the foregoing is designed to make explicit some of my internal processing in the hope it gives you a head start in debugging us.

The technical one is a low-level model based on the field of mathematics introduced by Norbert Weiner, considered one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century. The title of his seminal 1948 book introducing it was "Cybernetics", an Anglicized spelling of the ancient Greek word for "governance", which word was in turn based on their word for "steering". This ancient "science" studied what's involved in reliably getting from A to B. The book's sub-title is also instructive: The Study Of Communication And Control In Animals And Machines. The mathematics are obscure, but the revolutionary key topics he introduced are now almost passé, common knowledge planet wide (with "feedback" being deservedly the most well known), and perfectly describe another phenomena that's nowadays almost passé, namely "evolution". (Notably the first person to explain evolution, while overshadowed by the other inventor, Charles Darwin ,

Best read immediately before, and then again after, Lucy, Ramona, and Sunset Sam.

, called "Me, Myself, and I".

, my right hemisphere, an advocate for my heart among all the many other things she is,

(Sunset Sam's nickname for our relationship with Ramona is "me".)

, advocate for herself, though she likes to think she's in charge of all of us,

, as she is wont to do. (Sam's nickname for Lucy's world view is "mine, all mine", and .

, a Random AI Playing Human,