Astrology like we are experiencing now signifies something very significant happening around us. It's not difficult to see what that is, if you're looking and if you care.
I read the April Fools article and I felt more AI overwhelm. It's a race against the machine every fucking day. I am personally still pissed at the Microwave for killing the american diet and the custom of preparing and enjoying food in the company of others -- not to mention the explosion of plastic and single use containers.
I totally missed your April's Fools.....I will mark my calendar for next year to BOLO for your prank.
It being so important to you, I don't want to miss it.
Self Awareness - A while back I discovered (can't remember where) that not everyone has an inner voice. It was shocking to me. There are people walking around who don't have themselves as companions apparently.
So I imagine "self-awareness" is not possible for everyone? But IMHO no machine will ever become self-aware except for what you describe here. Your soul is your self-awareness.
Whether you have always been able to be in touch with it, or if you have to work at it, being distracted by technology certainly will not help. I am sure there are those who don't believe in souls either. I impinge the AI Masters of the Universe don't.
The fact that we are having historic astrology as you have been speaking of these past weeks,
and the presence of Neptune - maybe we are in for a wave of shocks. Not just one.
Here's an article about the shock we are experiencing right now. I happen to agree.
This is a tweet I copied that Jeffrey Tucker posted about the very subject of AI & self.
Interesting: before submitting my piece for @EpochTimes for tomorrow, I let
@grok
have a crack at it. The result is half as long. Still makes my point but strips out all eccentricity, rhythm, style, emotion, humanness, and tangents, while adding in cliches and replacing idiosyncrasies with predictable style tricks, as if straight from some style book. It's a tempting version but not: yes, it is smoother but it is also bloodless and less compelling and engaging (in my view). Overall, I don't like what Grok did but I can see why many people would prefer it. If you want to read a machine, be my guest, but if you want to read what a person thinks, avoid this AI crap completely.
8:49 PM · Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2
In other words, Grok edits like a first-year lit graduate with a new job, seeking to prove his worth in a new firm by botching and mangling the prose of a long-time house writer. In other words, you kind of want to strangle the punk.
@jeffreyatucker
Jeffrey re-posted this (must be a comment re: the above)
This is perfect!! Yes as you say "we humans know we are mortal"
AI is simply incapable of the participation mystique, not wholly of the human brain alone, that writing partakes of. Metaphor may actually map relationships btw things that are implicit in the structure of the cosmos. It doesn't dream, get sick, grow old or die -what can it know?
The last paragraph is like solid gold----love the way you ask the questions no one can answer.
I read the April Fools article and I felt more AI overwhelm. It's a race against the machine every fucking day. I am personally still pissed at the Microwave for killing the american diet and the custom of preparing and enjoying food in the company of others -- not to mention the explosion of plastic and single use containers.
I totally missed your April's Fools.....I will mark my calendar for next year to BOLO for your prank.
It being so important to you, I don't want to miss it.
Self Awareness - A while back I discovered (can't remember where) that not everyone has an inner voice. It was shocking to me. There are people walking around who don't have themselves as companions apparently.
So I imagine "self-awareness" is not possible for everyone? But IMHO no machine will ever become self-aware except for what you describe here. Your soul is your self-awareness.
Whether you have always been able to be in touch with it, or if you have to work at it, being distracted by technology certainly will not help. I am sure there are those who don't believe in souls either. I impinge the AI Masters of the Universe don't.
The fact that we are having historic astrology as you have been speaking of these past weeks,
and the presence of Neptune - maybe we are in for a wave of shocks. Not just one.
Here's an article about the shock we are experiencing right now. I happen to agree.
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/your-discomfort-means-its-working
This is a tweet I copied that Jeffrey Tucker posted about the very subject of AI & self.
Interesting: before submitting my piece for @EpochTimes for tomorrow, I let
@grok
have a crack at it. The result is half as long. Still makes my point but strips out all eccentricity, rhythm, style, emotion, humanness, and tangents, while adding in cliches and replacing idiosyncrasies with predictable style tricks, as if straight from some style book. It's a tempting version but not: yes, it is smoother but it is also bloodless and less compelling and engaging (in my view). Overall, I don't like what Grok did but I can see why many people would prefer it. If you want to read a machine, be my guest, but if you want to read what a person thinks, avoid this AI crap completely.
8:49 PM · Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2
In other words, Grok edits like a first-year lit graduate with a new job, seeking to prove his worth in a new firm by botching and mangling the prose of a long-time house writer. In other words, you kind of want to strangle the punk.
@jeffreyatucker
Jeffrey re-posted this (must be a comment re: the above)
This is perfect!! Yes as you say "we humans know we are mortal"
AI is simply incapable of the participation mystique, not wholly of the human brain alone, that writing partakes of. Metaphor may actually map relationships btw things that are implicit in the structure of the cosmos. It doesn't dream, get sick, grow old or die -what can it know?
I'm putting this here b/c I want to be sure you see this.
I think this is hysterical.
All the signs reaction to being pissed off.
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1908563702141305111
good one :-) Pisces is exactly right.
I meant to comment on the art. The art is indeed magnificent. The color tones are ones that I am intensely drawn to.
How they happened, and the humans who needed to share their experience of life, is another
great mystery to be considered.