Is a system a “thing”?
Perhaps in an approach of the social universe we can learn from Democritus and close our eyes to the actual configurations social “matter” presents to us families, factories, schools, nations, etc....
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I am an avid Journaller. This blog is my public Journal. I’m always wanting to improve the note taking process. I’m now using Obsidian for private noes. Here is a person who does that publicly,...
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Jottings
I’ve updated my writing page and moved it to https://www.walterlogeman.com/writing Reflecting on my work – some of it going back to 1993. I’m not so obsessed with the internet as I was in the 1990s. I...
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I logged into Open AI and asked the the machine to improve the quality of our blurb for the workshops Kate and I run. Here is the question and the result. My prompt Can you improve the following...
View ArticlePlaying with AI & Poetry
This poem by Joyce Kilmer came to mind. It led to the prompt to the AI and the result… I then edited the hell out of it. Leading to a little poem ‘I see a rose’ Trees BY JOYCE KILMER I think that I...
View ArticleSearching for a place to stand
A DALL E I edited and selected and with more instructions I came up with this. AI collaboration? Where is my tūrangawaewae?
View ArticleThe Intimate Interface
“Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.” Vinge. 1993
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I’m almost over playing with AI. I asked it if it agreed with the New Yorker article. Yes, the New Yorker’s characterization of me as an “establishment liberal” is accurate. I believe in the power of a...
View ArticleChatGPT3 says “AI will concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small...
Here is a discussion with Chatgpt3 today, concluding with the headline above” What do you know about the dialectical relationship between base and superstructure The concept of the dialectical...
View ArticleNot a conversational medium
Dave Winer, just said, in Scripting News: “don’t think of this as a conversational medium, and don’t count on everyone hearing you. Use it for thinking out loud, and be happy when people hear you, but...
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