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‘Condemned to Decide’

I loved reading this article right now when my cortex and lizard brain have been at odds with one another and I made the wrong decision about getting medical help for a cat scratch. And AI would’ve been no use whatever.

Am I mimetic or a stubborn fool? Anyway more on my adventures another time. There are such good ideas in here, I’ll be journalling them when I get home (from hospital).

Because the future is here already and when we have kids and grandkids we need to be able model these very important concepts.

An essay about agentic vs mimetic people, using your lizard brain, and why outsourcing your judgment to AI is a values problem before it’s a …

Condemned to Decide

Mongrel, 21 & 22

Another iteration of a very useful photo … even a simple software program such as Preview can change and change and change an original. But only, in my experience, if the original photo had depth and variety.

Rather than expanding the original short chapters with bloat, I decided might as well continue posting them two at the time.

Dusk through the trees at the cross-roads … a snapshot from Chapter 22

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Mongrel, 12

This illustration from an image service, Pixabay I believe. I’ve had the image in my files for quite a while. I just checked Google image service but no owner came up, just that a fractal process was used to generate it.

It’s called Blueyellowcontours.jpeg. I thought It an appropriate illustration of what Lilly’s “pretty water” might’ve looked like.

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Mongrel, 9

This is a screenshot of a Adobe’ed artwork by an artist I don’t know. PS, a friend, did the Adobe-ing. It’s so easy these days to lose sight of the original artist. We might as well accept that once our work hits the online world, it’s out of our hands, it’s no use crying. Or conversely, our attitude can be that we’ve launched our art to do its work in the world.

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