I thought about ... no, actually I crafted an entire post but deleted it ... posting this in response to Roger's "good old sci fi" (GOSF) arc. It's a fantastic TESCREAL narrative arc, reactive to such GOSF. And as allergic to narrative as I am, I still think it's a good story:
https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/ Plus, they use one of my favorite words: apotheosis. I get a distinct scent of the feminist critique of artificial life [⛧] in there, somewhere ... a kind of cynical us versus them vibe. But it's a vibe with which I often resonate. Like Diogenes, I believe truth is found in the gritty interstitial, not the lofty isolate. [⛧] Aggressively expressed as: artificial life is the (white|privileged) man's attempt to appropriate women's ability to rear children ... given that this list is prolly mostly (white|privileged) men, I can't help but wonder if any reaction to that concept is, would be, can be, authentic, including my own. But it's a bit sexist. Many women are fantastic analysts and can cut it up and isolate as well or better than any man. So the argument against TESCREAL isn't actually sexist. It just so happens to be that those of us who inhabit gritty, interstitial spaces recognize the phenomena better than those of us well ensconced in our silos. On 12/27/23 15:28, Steve Smith wrote:
When we invented gods in our own image we did a bad job, I'm not sure we are doing any better with the AI? Please gods, not in Elon's image! But hope springs infernal.
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