So go find some poems you like and enjoy :-) it will train your brain to feel malnourished by the cliches and have you asking for more.

I’m currently enjoying this poem lecture from Anne Carson on “the history of skywriting”

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Given AI’s rapid advancement, this fuzziness defines what language feels increasingly human. The way poetry stretches our imagination with its multitude of interpretations and emphasis on feeling is something that can encourage an unalgorithm-able form of critical thinking

When we witness endless examples of AI-generated writing tropes each day, what lingers is the unexpected. I think it’s partially why absurd comedy is so popular, think of the new movie Friendship. Is it supremely dumb? Yes. Is it a tragic tale of men’s vulnerability & sense of isolation? Also yes!

The technology of poetry, in contrast, serves as the soul’s confidante. As Han puts it, “we rarely read poems anymore. Unlike popular crime novels, they do not contain a final truth. Poems play with fuzzy edges.… they do not possess pornographic sharpness. They resist the production of meaning.”

Many people use technology like LLMs as question answerers, rather than question provokers. We use a technology akin to magic to generate “hyper-clarity” rather than utilizing their human-like neural structure to fortify our own curiosity

Han: “Under the compulsion of production…. Everything is subjected to the relentless light of transparency. Communication becomes pornographic when it becomes transparent, when it is smoothed out into an accelerated exchange of information. Language becomes pornographic when it no longer plays”

The world has become too explicit (I don’t mean this in a conservative way). As Byung Chul Han writes in “The Disappearance of Rituals,” we are entering “the age of pornography,” simply meaning many of us are atrophying our capacity for seduction, illusion and play.

Interesting! My first time using it felt foreign since I felt a desire to “respond” to someone’s reply- that said, I don’t love the way the desire for “likes” always make me feel. There’s an interesting function vs feeling thing going on there.