The collected writings of a Renegade Tourist

Month November 2025

Insights and Reflections of Fatherhood

My son is turning six today. Lately I’ve been thinking about how becoming a father has changed me, and the things I have learned by taking care of my son. Here are, in no particular order, some insights and reflections that these six years have brought me.

Noticing Children
Young children are, due to their size, easy to overlook – quite literally. However, after getting used to paying attention to your own little fellow; checking that he’s not right behind you before you take a step back; making sure he’s not standing in the way of the waitress carrying a … Read the rest

The Suit

I work in the linguistics department at Stellar Dynamics. My job is to analyze conversations between our personal AI assistant MIRA and our clients, and flag any inappropriate responses from the AI. The end goal is to create better training data so we can eliminate those behaviors. As you can imagine I read a lot of strange, sometimes even disturbing, things in my work; most of the time it’s coming directly from the client, or is a response to a line of reasoning that the client has initiated. A couple of days ago I came across an extremely disturbing piece of conversation and this time it wasn’t the client prompting the weird responses. I have transcribed it in full below.

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