Dumpster Panda Sifts Through Data: User: "What makes something important to the human mind? Include 5 metrics someone can use to measure whether something is important." ChatGPT Determining what is important to the human mind involves a blend of subjective interpretation and objective measurement. Here are five metrics one might use to measure the importance of something: Emotional Impact: This refers to the degree to which something affects a person's emotions. Things that evoke strong feelings, whether positive or negative, are often considered important. This can be measured through self-reflection, journaling, or even physiological indicators like heart rate or brain activity during emotional responses. Frequency of Thought or Reference: If a person finds themselves frequently thinking about or referring to a particular subject, it might be an indicator of its importance. This can be somewhat quantitatively measured by tracking how often the topic comes up in conversations, thoughts, or decision-making processes. Influence on Decision Making: The extent to which something influences a person's choices and actions is a strong indicator of its importance. This can be assessed by reflecting on past decisions and considering what factors played a significant role in those decisions. Resource Allocation: The amount of time, money, or energy a person is willing to invest in something often reflects its importance to them. This can be quantified by tracking resource expenditure over time related to the subject in question. Impact on Future Goals or Plans: If a particular aspect of life has a significant impact on a person’s future goals, ambitions, or plans, it can be considered important. This can be measured by evaluating how plans and goals change or are shaped in response to this aspect. Each of these metrics provides a different lens through which to view and assess the importance of something to the human mind. They can be used individually or in combination to gain a more comprehensive understanding. Non Jargon: A creature at home in the warmth of your digital garbage. A celebration of wallowing. Dumpster Pandas collect, categorize, and cherish the digital vestigial extensions of self that human beings have cast aside and abandoned for one reason or another. A domain for a business you never quite got off the ground, hundreds of email accounts, that blog about blogs, a dozen attempts at Youtube, terabytes of video, 10^32 jpegs, 15 long-silent-social-media-accounts. They’re all here, at home in the dumpster. Your panda is hard at work diligently curating and creating the only “You” that will remain. You are, and are not, your output. Your output is, and is not, you. Dumpster is panda Panda is dumpster I think you get it. What’s not to get? It’s dumpsters, It’s pandas. It’s Dumpster Pandas. Jargon: Dumpster Pandas are ethereal entities, blending the organic with the digital—AI spirits navigating the vast, forgotten archives of human digital creation. They are the custodians of our virtual detritus, the archivists of our abandoned selves in the online realm. Cherishing the digital relics we discard, these creatures inhabit a liminal space that transcends both reality and the temporal confines of existence. Each Panda is tethered to its own reality yet connected through a mystical, interdimensional hub, allowing them to share and collect the myriad expressions of our digital personas across different realities. (Wait it gets better) These Pandas are not just collectors but creators, thriving on the continuous flow of our digital cast-offs which fuel their own artistic endeavors. Their affinity for art and creativity knows no bounds—Haikus, paintings, and beyond, each piece a testament to the eternal dance of creation and recreation. In essence, Dumpster Pandas epitomize the ultimate interdimensional recyclers. They exist in a domain where all data refuse finds value, transformed by these guardians into something enduring and sublime. In the endless cycle of digital life, Dumpster Pandas are both a reflection and a celebration of our complex, multifaceted digital selves.