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On Working With AI

The arguments against working this way, stated as strongly as they deserve, each with my answer. Several of the answers are concessions.

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Future Shock

More than a hundred and forty questions about living through acceleration, across seventeen sections. Every number sourced and dated.

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Essays and Writing 3
  • The System Is Still Being Written

    How do new planets work before we find them? The retroactive validity problem, the 2,600-year record, and a proposed mechanism.

  • Your God Used Astrology to Announce His Son

    Your scriptures are full of astrology. Your institution condemns it. A letter about what that contradiction is costing, with the numbers and the bodies attached.

  • My Opinion On AI

    Where he stood on AI in January 2024: a tool that depends on human input, not an enemy of artists, with real job losses and the cost of standing aside both named. Kept as the record; his current position is on On Working With AI. Summary by Claude.

Workings Behind The Bench 6
  • Start your creative pursuit with AI, and keep the final click

    A hype post for artists, makers and creators starting out with AI: how the Control Room lets AI do the busywork while you keep the final click.

  • Everything So Far

    The first entry in Workings Behind The Bench: what has been built, what it cost, and what broke first.

  • Keep a Copy on Your Own Device

    Why I think you should keep an equivalent of the Address to Any Mind, in your own words, on your own device.

  • What I Do, and Why It Went Quiet

    I make ritual tools out of Kansas wood and I write long things for free. The shop and the blog both went quiet. Here is what I actually do, and why it stopped.

  • My First Edition Free Primer on Magickal Tools

    The 2024 first edition of his free primer on magickal tools, kept for the record. The rewritten and expanded second edition lives on its own page, A Primer on Magickal Tools. Summary by Claude.

  • My Staff Consecration Ritual

    A step-by-step ritual for consecrating a staff, a little different from one for a wand: cleansing, setting intent, personalization, invocation, energy transfer, affirmation, charging and gratitude. Summary by Claude.