Man, you have a beyond-interesting life, and obviously a mind that helps to make it thus. I imagine that your wife is quite the collaborator in all of it, too, in a variety of ways!
It's telling how/when you switch from consistent use of the first-person voice (this is your creation) to referring to HA as an autonomous entity. Right around here, I think, is when it happens:
"Notice the redirect at the end of the final example. That was something the Assistant would be doing quite a bit of, and in increasingly aggressive ways, because its primary goal in most conversations would be to build up a library of knowledge about you."
Took a look at this after you referenced it in your post the other day. Very interesting and I think that you are selling yourself short. This is meant as a comment on the first 4 parts as a whole. I guess fundamentally I don't believe in a Dark Genius or an evil muse. Fallen Men create fallen things but we create because we are made in the image of the Creator. The willingness to take a hammer to your work is the best sign that the work you were doing was not evil, a bit like Tolkien's Aule, though coming from a dark place at a dark time it took a dark form.
It is good to vomit out your own evil in confession, but recognize that the artistry and engineering is not bad. A quick look around confirms that the Lord enjoys painting with dark colors. It seems a terrible thing to confess about Him, but the alternative is to imagine that He is absent or cucked and let's never go down those roads. The trick that we must get Him to teach us is to use the dark colors of our own souls to make the whole picture beautiful. Law can only paint with white and so it always ends up dirty and a failure. In the Gospel the brightest day is the one where the sun hid its face.
King gonna go breed and make them immune to yer rifle shots, and maybe build an army of them to attack you?
Man, you have a beyond-interesting life, and obviously a mind that helps to make it thus. I imagine that your wife is quite the collaborator in all of it, too, in a variety of ways!
In the darkest period of my life (mid 2000s) I was besieged by a moth infestation of epic proportions.
It's telling how/when you switch from consistent use of the first-person voice (this is your creation) to referring to HA as an autonomous entity. Right around here, I think, is when it happens:
"Notice the redirect at the end of the final example. That was something the Assistant would be doing quite a bit of, and in increasingly aggressive ways, because its primary goal in most conversations would be to build up a library of knowledge about you."
Chilling. No wonder you see ChatBots as portals for demonic entities to enter the world!
Took a look at this after you referenced it in your post the other day. Very interesting and I think that you are selling yourself short. This is meant as a comment on the first 4 parts as a whole. I guess fundamentally I don't believe in a Dark Genius or an evil muse. Fallen Men create fallen things but we create because we are made in the image of the Creator. The willingness to take a hammer to your work is the best sign that the work you were doing was not evil, a bit like Tolkien's Aule, though coming from a dark place at a dark time it took a dark form.
It is good to vomit out your own evil in confession, but recognize that the artistry and engineering is not bad. A quick look around confirms that the Lord enjoys painting with dark colors. It seems a terrible thing to confess about Him, but the alternative is to imagine that He is absent or cucked and let's never go down those roads. The trick that we must get Him to teach us is to use the dark colors of our own souls to make the whole picture beautiful. Law can only paint with white and so it always ends up dirty and a failure. In the Gospel the brightest day is the one where the sun hid its face.
Had me on the edge of my seat for the last hour and a half! I look forward to the continuation.