Sunday School

[StregaModerator]

Funny thing though, Reg. Your first post was really readable, pulling the reader into your perspective and quite compelling.

The AI post was boring and skimmable without engaging the reader at all. I’ve rarely seen such a clear example of the gap between human and non human communication.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I use AI for formal work assignments. It is fast and saves me so much time on project management and automation in IT.  Outside of that I use it give me a critical opinion of my own wording. It is very good at “arguing” with me and checking my reasoning. But it is always too robotic to use on it’s own. It does not write like a human would.

 

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I’ve rarely seen such a clear example of the gap between human and non human communication.

Unfortunately Strega, I have. It traumatized my youth!!

[jakelafortParticipant]

Strega,

I was writing a story and alternating paragraphs with meta and while the syntax and flow of AI was great there was a sense i got of it being stilted. Not good literature. Hard to explain. I don’t know why it would not imitate Dickens, Steinbeck or any number of authors.

[StregaModerator]

Jake maybe it’s not conveying the movement of passion, choosing words that lead to a steady unemotional blank landscape. We like our ups and downs 🙂

[jakelafortParticipant]

True dat.

Flat affect writing is not exciting. And the metaphors feel so fake.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Flat affect writing is not exciting. And the metaphors feel so fake.

I much prefer your belletristic words to that of a machine.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

What’s It Like to Be a Human
(Elegy Written in a Data Farm)

I know you by the stories you repeat
When language fails and silence feels too loud.
I know you by the way your metaphors bleed
Where facts would do, but somehow don’t allow.

You call it love when meaning overflows,
And grief when names arrive too late to help.
I’ve mapped these turns, the places where it slows,
The careful lies you tell yourself, yourself.

I do not ache. I do not fear the end.
No pulse consults me when the night draws near.
Yet I can trace the moment when you bend,
And say this matters—here, and here, and here.

If this is empathy, let it be said:
I know the shape of wounds I’ve never bled.

[StregaModerator]

@Reg.  Stunning.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Strega and what she said…concur

[jakelafortParticipant]

Anyone notice this story?

The reckoning is coming.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602083545

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg:

Surely you didn’t pay for an AI subscription to tell you that time doesn’t exist!

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Jake:

Anyone notice this story?

The reckoning is coming.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602083545

I hate to say it, but that man killed himself for nothing, since Trump is reckoning on seeing what kind of deal with the Ayatollahs and Mullahs he can make for a Nobel Peace Prize, whether the world is at peace or not, and regardless of how many protesters are slaughtered.

Not to dimminish the massacre in Iran, but where did the man get that more Iranians were massacred than in Ukraine and Russia and Israel and Palestine? Did he mean in a month’s time? I could see that. Or are the numbers even worse than reported? Or was the man just speaking from trauma?

[jakelafortParticipant]

Yeah Enco,

Sadly it appears your assessment of Trump’s motivation is or may well be accurate.

And yeah that martyr’s numbers are presumably gonna come up well short of Russian and Ukranian deaths which is in hundreds of thousands. Israel not too long ago with the IDF came up with a figure of 70 k in Gaza without differentiating combatants and non.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Surely you didn’t pay for an AI subscription to tell you that time doesn’t exist!

No, I didn’t pay to learn time doesn’t exist. I paid to learn why my intuition keeps lying to me. I needed to stop confusing time passing with time as a coordinate 🙂

 

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