"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

30 March 2024

Striving.

Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter answering the question, in regard to artificial intelligence, "What's wrong with making things faster and easier?"
There are all sorts of temptations in this world that will eat away at your creative spirit but none more fiendish than that boundless machine of artistic demoralization, ChatGPT.  As humans we so often feel helpless in our own smallness, yet still we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things and this is where the meaning of life resides.  Nature reminds us of this constantly.  The world is often cast as a purely malignant place but, still the joy of creation exerts itself.  As the sun rises upon the struggle of the day the great crested grebe dances upon the water, it is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning ...

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