I'm glad you noticed it felt off! What do you think was off about it? To me, it was too direct, and the words were too common. The choices felt obvious.
Nolan, next I asked Claude to respond from a "positive psychology perspective". Short Story: VERY HELPFUL. Many of us are excited for the thought expanding potential of AI. The key is for us as humans to learn and practice DISCERNMENT. Mindfulness training is essential.
Yes, discernment is key. Yet, it feels insidious at times. I think it's easy to slip into becoming a slave to it. I've noticed it myself where I think I'm just using it to brainstorm or organize information, but then I notice I didn't learn what I set out to.
On the other hand, it's also helped me study and learn in ways I would never have been able to do for free beforehand. The correct prompts and usage can help a lot.
Ahhh, YOU NOTICED " I noticed I didn't learn what I set out to ". THANK GOD we have the capacity to notice what is missing, what our original hunch whispered. TENACITY is beautiful and the muscle of our intellect. NOLAN, you have it.
NOLAN, I gave Anthropic's Claude only the first line of your ChatGPT assisted composition, then asked what Virginia Woolf would have done with that same sentiment. WHY Virginia Woolf? I was going to ask Sylvia Plath too, I'm being perverse. BUT...THANK YOU for acknowledging that AI IS HERE TO STAY. We can use it lazily or to help us make breakthroughs.
I'll rewrite those lines in Virginia Woolf's distinctive voice and style:
" We enter life surrounded by reflections, innumerable and shifting; consciousness itself forms not in isolation but through the scattered fragments of others' perceptions. One becomes aware of oneself not directly but obliquely, as though glimpsing one's figure through windows and doorways and polished surfaces, each offering a different slant of light, a different possibility of being. Is it not curious how we learn to construct ourselves from these borrowed visions, these momentary impressions that others form and discard? The self—that elusive, wavering thing—exists perhaps only in this curious space between perception and reflection, never quite solid, never quite one's own. "
I couldn't-but I'm a very naive and unsuspecting creature. I quite liked it. Even though it's not exactly a poem -it's a painful manifesto, which is a kind of a poem I guess. It's relatable -not because of all the social media thing which I guess gets to me, but less than to younger people who seem to have no respite...but because one feels awfully, awfully lonely when he decides to break free.
I guess my poem "Breaking Free" touches on that? I like it not because it's some, wow, good poem. I don;t write good poems, alas.
But I was carrying it within me, just the first line, for years, and I think I managed to say something, that I couldn't have said before.
You could though easily write better yourself. You're very talented as I am sure you know.
And don't mind me too much-I'm faring poorly these days.
Nolan, I have read all your poems and this one sounds like you bit it is not you.
It somehow felt off to me before I read AI was involved.
I'm glad you noticed it felt off! What do you think was off about it? To me, it was too direct, and the words were too common. The choices felt obvious.
Yes, indeed and the poem did not evoke the same feelings as your original poems.
Nolan, next I asked Claude to respond from a "positive psychology perspective". Short Story: VERY HELPFUL. Many of us are excited for the thought expanding potential of AI. The key is for us as humans to learn and practice DISCERNMENT. Mindfulness training is essential.
Yes, discernment is key. Yet, it feels insidious at times. I think it's easy to slip into becoming a slave to it. I've noticed it myself where I think I'm just using it to brainstorm or organize information, but then I notice I didn't learn what I set out to.
On the other hand, it's also helped me study and learn in ways I would never have been able to do for free beforehand. The correct prompts and usage can help a lot.
Ahhh, YOU NOTICED " I noticed I didn't learn what I set out to ". THANK GOD we have the capacity to notice what is missing, what our original hunch whispered. TENACITY is beautiful and the muscle of our intellect. NOLAN, you have it.
NOLAN, I gave Anthropic's Claude only the first line of your ChatGPT assisted composition, then asked what Virginia Woolf would have done with that same sentiment. WHY Virginia Woolf? I was going to ask Sylvia Plath too, I'm being perverse. BUT...THANK YOU for acknowledging that AI IS HERE TO STAY. We can use it lazily or to help us make breakthroughs.
I'll rewrite those lines in Virginia Woolf's distinctive voice and style:
" We enter life surrounded by reflections, innumerable and shifting; consciousness itself forms not in isolation but through the scattered fragments of others' perceptions. One becomes aware of oneself not directly but obliquely, as though glimpsing one's figure through windows and doorways and polished surfaces, each offering a different slant of light, a different possibility of being. Is it not curious how we learn to construct ourselves from these borrowed visions, these momentary impressions that others form and discard? The self—that elusive, wavering thing—exists perhaps only in this curious space between perception and reflection, never quite solid, never quite one's own. "
WOW!
I couldn't-but I'm a very naive and unsuspecting creature. I quite liked it. Even though it's not exactly a poem -it's a painful manifesto, which is a kind of a poem I guess. It's relatable -not because of all the social media thing which I guess gets to me, but less than to younger people who seem to have no respite...but because one feels awfully, awfully lonely when he decides to break free.
I guess my poem "Breaking Free" touches on that? I like it not because it's some, wow, good poem. I don;t write good poems, alas.
But I was carrying it within me, just the first line, for years, and I think I managed to say something, that I couldn't have said before.
You could though easily write better yourself. You're very talented as I am sure you know.
And don't mind me too much-I'm faring poorly these days.
There's a lot to respond to here, but why are you faring poorly these days? I'm always happy to jump on a call if needed.