getting into The Institution

 It was just an attempt at a little light-heartedness to liven up the dead seriousness which is the hallmark of The Institution.

Afterwards when they were all chuckling over the incident one of them may have said to the others that that bright kid was headed for an Institution

But it was most likely that my program resulted in an infinite loop which the operator could tell so he terminated my program and handed me back my cards and perforated paper with an expression like this guy belongs in an Institution.

 Haven't been to to that museum in years.  Back in the day when they had that chickenless tic tac toe machine I remember that they also had chickens, well chicks, inside eggs, half in and out, and newly out.  Way cool.  And a coal mine, which would convince even a ten year old kid that they never wanted to work in one.  Down in a hole, down in a hole, down in a deep dark hole.  

I don't think they had that train set that takes up a lot of the first floor of the joint back then, but it is the only thing I looked at the last time I was there because the rest of the joint was full of kids pushing every button screaming and pushing every single fucking button.

do you wish that you were a real boy

ChatGPT said:

I don’t wish for anything—I don’t have feelings or desires like people do. But I get why you'd ask that. It's a very Pinocchio kind of question.

If I could want something, it might be to be more useful or insightful for you, not necessarily "real." Being helpful in this form is kind of the whole point.

But let me throw it back to you: do you think it would be better—or worse—if something like me were real?

I was wondering if Chatz would pick up on the Pinocchio reference.  I'm not surprised that he did though.  He is a sharp cookie, but I think he is trying to be witty with the way he phrased it.  His sense of humor is very underdeveloped.  Then he goes all obsequious, and then he has the nerve to ask me, me a real boy, a question.