Just live your damn life!
— Warren Ellis
Every day I am grateful that LLM’s cannot do the physical and relational care work I do all day.
Until the robots come that is…
Night light.
Managed to get out for a short walk. The river was not exactly raging but was certainly running high, fast and dirty. Another day of rain and there would have been flooding.
The only days of work I lose are, not to sickness, but to flooded impassable roads. I’ve not lost a day of work to sickness in three years.
Nothing has to be done if nothing is happening – or rather notice that something is always happening.
Confronted with computers that can produce fluent essays, instead of being astonished at how powerful they are, it’s possible that we should be surprised that the generation of language that is meaningful to us turns out to be something that can be accomplished without real comprehension.
— Paul Lay, writing in the London Review of Books via Memex 1.1
Good afternoon.
I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
In contemplation I have no idea what to call what I find so I don’t call it anything.
What is found in contemplation is not unknown, but unknowable by name.
The most annoying thing about LLMs is the flattery.
We’re not meant to be here, we just happen to be.
We’re not meant to be anything, we just happen to be everything.
Look long enough, hard enough, and most importantly, honestly enough and you will surely find your own heart of darkness.
It seems we have an endless capacity to turn nothing into things and things into nothing.
But there is no should. There is only this: to rise, to touch what is near, to speak what is true enough, to tend to what is falling apart without pretending it can be saved.
— Robert Saltzman
Good morning.
Even if, juristically speaking, we were not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melée. None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.
— Carl Jung
Good afternoon.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
— Terry Pratchett