A water pipe in my apartment broke for the second time in my short stay here. Upon asking the property manager why this keeps happening, his tone shifted to that of a character doing exposition in a Christopher Nolan movie. Water expands and contracts he went on to say. I imagined him gesticulating with both hands on the other side of the phone as he continued to explain expansion and contraction of water using different words; like I had just prompted chat GPT to describe the properties of water in 10 sentences. After listening to him carefully, I politely enquired why water expands and contracts so much only in my apartment. Unfortunately, he refused to find the humor in this, and that likely delayed getting things fixed.
Honor in the Machine
Honor in the Machine
Honor in the Machine
A water pipe in my apartment broke for the second time in my short stay here. Upon asking the property manager why this keeps happening, his tone shifted to that of a character doing exposition in a Christopher Nolan movie. Water expands and contracts he went on to say. I imagined him gesticulating with both hands on the other side of the phone as he continued to explain expansion and contraction of water using different words; like I had just prompted chat GPT to describe the properties of water in 10 sentences. After listening to him carefully, I politely enquired why water expands and contracts so much only in my apartment. Unfortunately, he refused to find the humor in this, and that likely delayed getting things fixed.