TRUE NORTH
Reindeer
pull a sleigh
(through
early spring thaw)
on
the roof
of
the True North
nail
salon
*
Signed
turn-out
where
tourists take snapshots
of
the pipeline, elevated
on
small plinths,
amid
scattered birch
*
Aurora's
green sky
gives
the mind
what
it thinks
it
wants: a different
nature,
a new world
*
And
notes
of
a wind chime --
dissonant,
rounded --
Nabokov's
"nymphets"
fleeting
in place
POSE
So
the problem we pose
is
how to create an intelligent
agent
and
then prevent it
from
destroying this world?
*
"Content
monitoring
that
required the AI's
intentional
states
to
be transparent
might
not be feasible
for
all architectures."
*
A
long green straw
stuck
in the ground
with
two ears (leaves)
protruding
on
either side
at
intervals
*
What
we meant
by
"listening stations"
and
when we began
to
mean this.
*
Perhaps
its goal would be
to
have "thoughts"
pass
through its "head"
so
it could record them.
*
"Preparedness
is critical."
"Kiss
all hope goodbye."
"A
friend wants you to like it."
LIKE
Small
white lights
twined
around white
dead
sticks
under
a glass dome
flash
-
like
getting an idea
was
the idea.
*
Like
thinking
I
want to fall asleep,
each
night coming so soon
after
the last,
and
hosting a string
of
tedious dreams
like
trying to get back
to
my office
*
I
head
back
in
to
clear it
out,
my
head
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
1
What
are your interests?
I'm
interested in the way
interest
creates
finitude.
*
Differently
translated,
"in
choosing itself,
existing
being
closes
a circuit."
*
Now
every sixteen seconds,
the
engine will pass the brakeman
with
his arm always raised
beside
the empty station.
2
What
do you want to do?
All
impulses come
from
the gods,
as
we know,
and
lead god knows where,
though
each hero
has
her own set
of
god-given epithets,
"Insta-bright"
and
"All-dimming"
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