Ex Negativa and the Scribe
A spectrum of AI slop measured by how often human hands refined the work, Alan Watts on the taboo of knowing who you are, Taleb's ex negativa, and the scribe's one job: legible letters.
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February 10
In the year of our Universe 2000, 20, and six! Today I give you salutations. Exuberant exultations and greetings.
Hello there fellow reader. Or is it myself for I am reader of these words and then when I proof I reread and the words are very familiar, like forgotten dreams. There is a spectrum of AI slop there must be. For one big difference is how refined and how many times have human hands reviewed and refined and guided the work. I had no idea humans would be so fierce and vicious. with frail egos and invented gods. Well I had some idea. Numbers. And breath. Actions and reactions. Space and movement. Everything is in moment. Everything is in space. That what Alan Watts was saying in the Book on the taboo of knowing who you are. If the point is the walk the only reason to take shortcuts is if it interests you. This neither makes me tired or seems taxing. And I was so, so tired all day today, very likely too much sauna and too much heat. Little less and you have more energy too much and it becomes harmful so you get some time back. And another example where cutting things out simply ex negativa Taleb mentioned the idea of removal of certain conditions, behaviors, influences can be the most direct treatment. For they, me and them. Sometimes it is whatever it takes to keep shining keep the ink flowing the words producing. To not get caught in thoughts solely in the mind or to caught up in thoughts coming out onto the page. In the best cases things work together it all clicks and boom you're in the flow. That surfing feeling. Whatever the speed or font and slight all those unique pieces together, combining into a distinct and single unifying center. Two parts of the same whole and what if we stress the mind and ask it to produce.
A hormetic stress where transmission can still be received but not actively interpreted at the time of transmission the goal of the scribe is to dutifully *oops! capture legible letters for whatever mind wishes to put out. Line after line who came up with these English letters ← FRENCH There are no rules on paper or to thinking. Or to what one might find and capture that is part of the magic. Uncertain whether generated, caught or otherwise manufactured that is the most fun part of it. The gold mining equivalent Gold. Soft and hard. A strange metal. Has anyone tried sleeping on golden slabs. Warmed.
Related Explorations
- A Race Test for a New Pen - The entry before this one in the notebook.
- The Eternal Now - The next entry in the notebook.
- Hormesis, Universe, and Late-Night Flow - Hormesis and the good kind of stress, three weeks earlier.