3/15 artificial intelligence report: no help during coding. wrong solutions put forward with great confidence. you might even think that the suggested solutions show how the tools i’m using should in fact work, but they don’t, and so the solution is wrong. even with multiple attempts at correcting or nudging the ai i’m not getting closer to an actual solution, we’re just stuck in a loop. j is confident that this boundary will always exist, the human programmer will always be on top of the machine, even though the level and nature of their tasks may shift. i am not sure if we are looking at a quantitative or a qualitative issue.

artificial intelligence report ii: the recommendations of story graph, the small blurbs where it explains why i may or may not like this particular book, comparing it to other books i’ve read but also to more abstract notions of what i’m interested in, such as generality or even the pace of a book – those blurbs are absolutely addictive. i want to read more books just so the blurbs become even more interesting. i want to prove the blurbs wrong. i want to go on the ride of the blurbs.

and yet this is where it goes wrong. i should not read books because i might like them. each book should be so deeply disturbing that nothing could have anticipated it. a book should leave a different human behind.

and then why is that about books. it should be the days, the places, the people that do that. and that’s a tall order. who can live a life like that. a life in constant metamorphosis is meaningless. also, compare youth and old age.

don’t get me started on middle age. you are moving from young to old, of course you are in the middle, always. this conveys no information.

books: a bridge technology, futile or even dangerous to be idolized. just because of a few centuries in which we had nothing but books. i don’t want to say no to anything because i can’t handle it. i am not prepared to accept that we can’t do any better than books, and that we must remove ourselves from everything but the books if we don’t want to deteriorate.