Greetings from Underground!
This week, I'm reading a horror story written by a close friend. I'm spending my evenings nestled cozily in that liminal space between delusion and diapers. I am ever so slightly rested, but what I lack in sleep I make up for in dogged determination to dream.
There is a new soul under my little roof. A full family's worth of vision and care now falls to me. And so, I am attempting to offload everything that will not serve us.
I present to you a reading from this week’s travels in digital space from Colin W.P. Lewis:
Cognitive Offloading
I am currently engaged in a project concerning cognitive offloading to AI, the early research has shown me that our mental conceptual tools are powerful yet perilous, poetic yet potentially misleading. We must question relentlessly, probing beneath metaphorical surfaces, resisting intellectual complacency. Only then, perhaps, can we hope to grasp the elusive reality of intelligence and what we give up to the machines.
There are some things worth giving up, and there are other things bestowed to us for safekeeping—things which we possess and yet are not ours to give up.
I leave you with something evergreen from the ever glowing Gary Snyder:
For the Children
The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
the steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.
In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.
To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:
stay together
learn the flowers
go light
Here's to you and yours.
Onward!
JKLC