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Learning Sequence Commencing


Computer: *BEEP BOOP*

I am Learner 5000

*BEEP BEEP*

I am designed to enable learning

*BOOP BOOP BEPP*

Today, the lesson is poetry. Poetry is used for a number of reasons including, coping with hardships.

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

ALARM ALARM ALARM ALARM

My programming has detected depression. Are you depressed? Have you experienced hardship? Tell me what has happened... Tell me in a poem.

Me: She's gone, she's gone, there's no turning back.

Who you might ask? Here's my answer to that

I lost myself. The childlike me

The one who loved painting and climbing up trees

All there is left is dirty water and stumps

The rope I once used was thrown in the dump

There she lays right alongside

Couldn't handle the pain so she quit and she died.

Computer: *BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEPPPPP*

I am malfunctioning.... Sort of like you....

*explodes*

 

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