I kind of hate that I kind of love this exchange. Don’t make me like Ai, Jonathan.
But it’s right: you do in fact embrace (or are inclined) to embrace impermanence, maybe as I do, because it deepens our love of beauty wherever we find it.
Thank you, Patris. Here's a clever (in the best sense) bit that I think captures (y)our misgivings about AI by Elle Cordova one of my favorite creators of clever bits: "Inventions Hanging Out" https://youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488?si=Rct4XbzIgEmydiTj
Thank you Jonathan. Ha. Yes. Just watched. Brilliant actually I think. Frightening too.
I’m wholly unprepared for Ai - mostly it's a threat but also a fascinating pathway. To …? I have no idea. I hear the voice of what I considered a monster from Kubrick’s 2001 peaking out of doorways. A living thing now.
It’s been hard not to go down roads I’m unfamiliar with - I’ve always found them way too attractive.
pretty amazing that u can conjure these chaps up from the afterlife...! Wonder what Billy Butler wd say about the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley....!
{ Aleister Crowley—English magician and founder of the religion of Thelema—has been admired as a powerful theorist and practitioner of what he called “Magick,” and reviled as a spoiled, abusive buffoon. Falling somewhere between those two camps, we find the opinion of Crowley’s bitter rival, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who once passionately wrote that the study of magic was “the most important pursuit of my life….. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” }
I think you zeroed in on something here, Broo. There are definitely parallels between Crowley and Yeats' interest in "magick" (used and abused) and the use and potential abuse of AI.
I love these conversations!
Thanks Stan! and for the restack as well
I felt the concluding poem viscerally, a calming and settling. You have a gift. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Thank you Phyllis, your comments are wonderfully gratifying.
I kind of hate that I kind of love this exchange. Don’t make me like Ai, Jonathan.
But it’s right: you do in fact embrace (or are inclined) to embrace impermanence, maybe as I do, because it deepens our love of beauty wherever we find it.
Thank you, Patris. Here's a clever (in the best sense) bit that I think captures (y)our misgivings about AI by Elle Cordova one of my favorite creators of clever bits: "Inventions Hanging Out" https://youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488?si=Rct4XbzIgEmydiTj
Thank you Jonathan. Ha. Yes. Just watched. Brilliant actually I think. Frightening too.
I’m wholly unprepared for Ai - mostly it's a threat but also a fascinating pathway. To …? I have no idea. I hear the voice of what I considered a monster from Kubrick’s 2001 peaking out of doorways. A living thing now.
It’s been hard not to go down roads I’m unfamiliar with - I’ve always found them way too attractive.
That was a lot of fun! And I love the triolet, Wonderfully done.
Thanks Dick. Here are several other triolets I've done: https://jopomojo.substack.com/t/triolet
Wonderful Jonathan - love these. The way you handle the structure - really nice. I especially like 8/12/23 - stunning! :-)
Thank you!
pretty amazing that u can conjure these chaps up from the afterlife...! Wonder what Billy Butler wd say about the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley....!
https://boingboing.net/2022/09/19/wb-yeats-and-aleister-crowley-once-battled-each-other-in-an-epic-real-life-magical-duel.html "...the Battle of Blythe Road, an actual real-life magical duel between WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley that ended triumphantly when Yeats dropped the magic act and just kicked Crowley down the stairs."
https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html
{ Aleister Crowley—English magician and founder of the religion of Thelema—has been admired as a powerful theorist and practitioner of what he called “Magick,” and reviled as a spoiled, abusive buffoon. Falling somewhere between those two camps, we find the opinion of Crowley’s bitter rival, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who once passionately wrote that the study of magic was “the most important pursuit of my life….. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” }
I think you zeroed in on something here, Broo. There are definitely parallels between Crowley and Yeats' interest in "magick" (used and abused) and the use and potential abuse of AI.