Tarot
- As brainstorming, idea generation
- The Goffman and Bentham trumps
- knowledge and scholarship as magic
- networks and cross connections
Essay on Types of Interactions
- Passing someone on the sidewalk
- The door with a window:
- The conversational group
- Being at a poster
- Turn-taking in conversation
- Meetings
- Large dinner parties
- Classes
- Plays and performances
- Auctions
- queues
- Groups coalescing at a reception
- Crowds crossing streets
- Firedrills
The Mind in the Hand
- their predilections
- Their nervousness
- Flopping while running / home position
- – the marionette
- My teacher’s hands
- Enjoy playing more than listening – the fluid movement of the fingers tricking down an arrpeggio towards its root.
- The pleasure of motor sequences.
- Tourette’s and the pleasure they get…
On Rhythm and Timing
Timing
date
Correspondence (Boswell, letters, posts)
- Sending letters by mail took time. They created a rhythm; there was both time to write, and time to reflect on what was received. They created drama too – what would the response be. Email has lost this.
Meetings and their ends (the phone meeting story, and the ‘after-meeting’
- In a face to face meeting a lot of things happen; conversational ‘potentials’ are built up, and then afterwards they can be discharged.
Entering 501 Groveland… The double doors, both locked and requiring buzz-in, slow you down, and make you conscious of entering. Other buildings can, but do not necessarily, perform similar functions. Entering a church…
• Also include thoughts on slow email
Grasping Clouds
- modeling clouds – cubes
- Surreal – looking into a vast sky
Ceilings / looking Up
- the dentist’s office
- Our new attic
- Churches without ceilings
The Joy of Ceilings. Dental office ceiling: shower nozzles and ceiling tiles. Vs. attic ceiling: paralell lines and angles. Other ceilings: childhood church, with its beams and shadowy places; stamped tin panneling in old restaurants; the cistine chaple; Hagia Sophia in Instanbul.
“Sorry: I don’t understand the word ‘Sorry’
- Chat GPT
- how conversation works
- ? Neil Postman?
Design
- congratulations on your 237th fastest 4-6 mile run
- Computers and truth
- Your call we be answered in…
The secret languages of stimergy
- the island corner
- Tarmac hieroglyphics
Making Order
- The Red thread
- Forcing functions
- Accommodation and aging
- One key
AI and the Failure of SF
Science fiction has failed. Long hailed as an imaginative genre that envisions possible futures arising from actual or potential advances in science and technology, it has failed to capture, in even a single instance, the nature of Artificial Intelligence that is now at hand. Science fiction has of course, envisioned intelligent machines for decades ranging from benficient god-like intelligences as in XXX, or malevolent entities like YYY, or
- Mike in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- HAL in 2001
- P1 in the Adolescence of P1
- The Mailman in XXX, by Vinge
- Or the 3-law robots of Issac Asimov
xxx.What we are now faced with, in the advent of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models, is something never imagined. An entity with vast knowledge, but one that is not very smart; and furthermore, when one that, when it does not know the answer, will fabricate, bluff or simply lie.
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