• Midstream Musings – we scale ourselves and return Sisyphus …
- [draft 7-1-2025, added more notes] THE SHADOWSCAPE (e)scape for free from reality in moving from low to high,we see our pathway as true,and that we are in the right.yet forever left nearby,as if they are out of view,still the shadows of the night– the gods need not take our sight […]
- Here’s a rough sketch of a possible screenplay: The Shadowscape – Episode 1. A dark comedy. Homages to The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror. No peak of eternal light. [draft 6-18-2025] THE SHADOWSCAPE (e)scape for free from reality “you’re welcome to pass,but step quickly inside,you’re letting out the darknesswhich i hope […]
- I like the use of the word alignment in this article for bridging meaning & purpose via storytelling. But, without compassion & insight, might such reframing & narrative produce dark purpose? – e.g., vindictiveness [1]. • Psychology Today > “The Story You Tell Yourself” by Jordan Grumet M.D., The Regret-Free […]
- the gods need not take our sight … [updated 5-19-2025] we scale ourselves … in moving from low to high,we see our pathway as true,and that we are in the right.yet forever left nearby,as if they are out of view,still the shadows of the night whether heaven or havenwill ever […]
- If the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (the 1951 Disney film) used a smartphone, would his passing by a curious Alice have been less panicky? Are you a multi-tasker? Over the years, real-time task juggling has been praised. Multi-tasking on our digital devices has become the model for all […]
- Will superintelligent, powerful AIs entertain doubt? Or seduce us into blind faith? Numb us intellectually & emotionally, or nurture our questions & agency? Here's a young voice reminding us of the importance of critical thinking … the power & peril of doubt … "the world will change whether you do […]
- This Wired interview – with the author of Nexus [2024] – explores the future of coexisting with AIs. I found this theme particularly interesting: the role of storytelling in human evolution. • Wired > The Big Interview (video) > "Yuval Noah Harari Sees the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information" […]
- Peddling AI faces a legacy of Hollywood dystopian dramas. Not something which favors AI companies facing regulation or litigation – when AI goes bad. So, the charm campaign has begun, as noted in this article (below) – to shift perceptions in popular culture. Tales of sharing our agency … "don't […]
- One perspective on this fable is that the crow stayed rooted in trickle down moral obligation. The belief that moral attachment abates by ranked kinship circles. By increasing distance between neighborhoods. The fox learned that being a neighbor meant aligning widely with others. Unlike the crow, he saw kinship as […]
- Two articles with a similar theme of "human agency in an age of synthetic fluency." What are the implications of blending our agency with AIs? Is this a negotiation in which there's mutuality? Some shared alignment. Or is it wishful thinking, as this article suggests, because "there is no one […]