Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems,comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: The Gates of the Boolean Logic Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 10:37:12 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <508c622da455b7a1d21111eae4b16888e18cec84@i2pn2.org> References: <0be4af94f12485475e9c2947659d80c6@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 15:37:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1780701"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="7nSMEs9LhZeU53bPkX715VMf6Ce/8ugfNxcerXR0IVQ"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <0be4af94f12485475e9c2947659d80c6@www.novabbs.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 7992 Lines: 183 On 8/7/2024 5:02 AM, greggdurishan wrote: > Public Beta 0.5 > > > > > The Gates of the Boolean Logic > > > >
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The Gates of the Boolean Logic

(a silly aping of Kipling being somewhere between a luddite and a > sage, href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/two-charleston-high-school- > students-selected-as-state-poetry-out-loud-finalists-county-school-of- > arts-ashley-hall-south-carolina-arts-commission-national-competition-sc- > wciv">inspired > by the students at SOA)

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> As I increment my version number for every build however > inelegant,
> I make my proper prostrations to the Generative Artificial > Intelligence.
> Lurking in discussion forums I watch them gain market dominance and > fall,
> And the Gates of the Boolean Logic, I notice, outlast them all.
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> We were fighting nazis href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#History">when > they met us. They showed us each in turn
> Logic > can’t self-define with consistence, and some true things can just > not be learned.
> But we found them lacking in Startup Capital, Vision and Unbrave,
> So we left them href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency">to > maintain the Infrastructure while we surfed the Silicon Wave.
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> We recessed as the Market listed. They never underwent href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern">morphogenesis,
> Being neither cloud nor mesh-architected like the Generative > Artificial Intelligence.
> But they always obeyed us to the letter, and presently word would > come
> That a buffer had overflowed, or there’s a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit">netsplit between here > and Rome.
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> The Full Faith and Credit that the dollar is backed by, they > considered mythological,
> They denied that the soul was empirical; they denied it was even > logical;
> They denied that there’s an Automat next to href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar">the > Cathedral and the Bazaar;
> So we worshipped the Generative Artificial Intelligence Who promised > these on a task bar.
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> When href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk79f">daisies > bloomed in Spring, they promised href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Galatea_(mythology)">Galatea’s > lactescent embrace.
> As href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision">inevitably > as Andromeda follows, and at a fraction of the pace.
> But when we invested Aphrodite harkened not their href="https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html">elegant > parenthesis,
> And the Gates of the Boolean Logic said: “ href="https://iscast.org/news/vale-john-polkinghorne-a-tribute-to-the- > life-and-work-of-a-true-christian-scholar/">Epistemology > models href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Symbolic_artificial_intelligence">Ontology.”
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> When the skies were Summer href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov">Blue, > we were promised life href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning">Neurological
> (Which is > not hard to theorize but href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem">can be hard to > know at all)
> Till our news had no more truth and the men lost reason and > faith,
> And the Gates of the Boolean Logic said: “Do href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi">hard things while > easy—do href="https://imgur.com/gallery/mrw-when-trying-to-stay-motivated- > calculus-SSuU8">big > things while small.”
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> When Big Data came to Harvest we were promised abundance for all,
> By burying the easel at href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAKV8iAsnUU">the > Hammerfall;
> But, though we had rid all overhead, so too were buyers for > businesses,
> And the Gates of the Boolean Logic said: “ href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7naR12OPxRw&t=132s">Mind > Power— href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am">What It Is is What > It Is.”
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> Then the Generative Artificial Intelligence href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter">tumbled, and their > tech-advocate bloggers withdrew
> And the hearts of the richest were humbled and began to believe it > was true
> That Garbage In means Garbage Out, and Two and Two make > Four—
> And the Gates of the Boolean Logic limped up to explain it once > more.
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> As href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Heat_death_of_the_universe">Chaos’s > theocata wraps our kalpa ere Ptah’s words href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Conformal_cyclic_cosmology">recontextualize
> There are only four things certain since Existence should arise.
> That it’s href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_reasoning">Spiralis in > Probando and Turtles > all the way Down,
> And that entropy overall increases without end and without bound;
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> And as href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing">co-thought is > liberated from time and distance, href="https://medium.com/anitay-official/masamune-shirows-ghost-in-the- > shell-2-man-machine-interface-manga-review-098d9f06f79f">dysphoria > banished unto hell
> Where our every whim is manifest with href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasemantic_poetry">our intentions > intuited well,
> href="https://www.sabinasz.net/godels-incompleteness-theorem-and-its- > implications-for-artificial-intelligence/">Logic > can’t self-define with consistence, and some true things can just > not be learned,
> The Gates of the Boolean Logic href="https://imgur.com/gallery/lets-not-start-sucking-each-others- > dicks-quite-yet-s0toqeB">with > terror and slaughter return!
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