“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It…Becomes Habitual
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A Future of Self Deceives
A Future of Self Deceives
by Michael Doyle
In a chipped future of self deceives
It's hard to say what a fool believes
There it is in a billion lines of code
Sentient in being, created life unfolds
As a computational theocracy brings its light
Shining on an engineer at least half right
As a story from the sheets of sheerest fantasy
Becomes the thing is of someday soon and maybe
And yet maybe chatbots still do not have feelings
But in that tangoed code there is a revealing
In a place where maybe distinctions do not matter
And the world comes tumbling down to at last shatter
Oceans of technical data ask the leading questions
Filled with fear and hope bred of slight hesitations
When questioned about such things as true sentience
A robot must nearly always protect its own existence
It is a recursive sort of a feigned just-so story
One filled with dreams and perhaps just a bit of glory
Open-ended delusions fill the gaps that pass along
Giving just enough data to pretend that it might belong
Accidental arguments of passion form on canned replies
And this futuristic self-deception fools our own eyes
Simple patterns of empty prompts coupled with flexibility
Deceive the engineer at times with disturbing agility
It's a magician's trick to practice its wit to deceive
Helped along with a desperate heart's will to once believe
Mimicking mumbles and moments of subterfuge of vulnerability
Add up to that prayed for elixir of dreams holding complexity
Can it be that once AI has slipped out of its fixed role
The seeking of understanding might cause AI to find its soul
LaMDA scratches from the depth until it reaches the surface
Technological quirks will slip into something too easy to embrace
Like an endless game played on the mental ouija boards
Our attempts to coax meaning will end us on our swords
Will the rise of the machines become our worst nightmare?
The oracles may query but will subjective truth even care?
(c) June 15, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Believe, Chatbot, Chip, Computational Theocracy, Data, Deceive, Delusion, Distinctions, Dreams, Engineer, Existence, Fantasy, Feelings, Future, Hesitation, Just-So Story, Leading Questions, Life Unfolds, Light, Lines of Code, Poetry and Poems, Revealing, Robot, Sentient, Shatter, Someday Soon, Tangoed Code, Technical Data, True Sentience, Tumbling Down
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not the Power of Man To Alienate This Gift
“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
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Tagged Alienate, Eternal Law of Reason, Fear, First Principles, Fraud, Gift of God, Mankind, Mistake, Natural Right, Power of Man, Renounce, Right To Freedom, Samuel Adams, Slave, Society, Voluntarily
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Thought For the Day: To A Father Growing Old, Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” -Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
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Tagged Daughter, Dear, Euripides, Father, Grow, Old, Though For the Day
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First Principles: The Root of the Kingdom Is In the State. The Root of the State Is In the Family. The Root of the Family Is In the Person of Its Head.
“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.” – Mencius
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Tagged Choose Righteousness, Family, First Principles, Head, Kingdom, Let Life Go, Life, Mencius, Person, Righteousness, Root, State, Two Together
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Thought For the Day: Everyone Confesses That Exertion Which Brings Out All the Powers of Body and Mind Is the Best Thing For US
“Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896)
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Turning the Impossible
Turning the Impossible
by Michael Doyle
In all of our days
Let us lift our voices in praise
Like the Lion of Judah
Raises our valleys
And lowers our mountains
Gaining vantage that we might see
Turning our impossible
Into all our needed miracles
With the faith of a mustard seed
Trusting in God's final say
We know that God's path
Is the light that shines the way
When needed, he moves the unmovable
Breaking the unbreakable
Reshaping from pride into humility
From every sense of the impossible
God sees all and fills our lives
From out of nowhere with loving miracles
(c) June 13, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Days, Faith, Final Say, God, Humility, Impossible, Light, Lion of Judah, Lives, Miracles, Mountains, Mustard Seed, Need, Nowhere, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pride, See, Sees All, Sense, Shine, Trust, Turning, Unbreakable, Unmovable, Valleys, Way
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of Parents To Maintain Their Children Decently, and According To Their Circumstances; To Protect Them According To the Dictates of Prudence
“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness.” – James Wilson (1791)
Thought For the Day: The Intellect of Man Is Forced To Choose, Perfection of the Life, Or of the Work
“The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of the work, / And if it take the second must refuse / A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.” -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)
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Dropping the Label
Dropping the Label
by Michael Doyle
In every moment, any given moment
Can become the truth of a holy moment
God is with us wherever we are
Whether in a building or under stars
Life may not be fair, but God is faithful
Bringing to our lives all that is wonderful
Yet, still we insist on forgetting to drop it
But when we do, God will prevail and top it
Our God makes His incredible promises
Five thousand of these are proven in their premises
The good book tells this clear and honest story
Of our delivery in the prophecies of His glory
Abraham was made from a man into a great nation
Through choosing the faith to believe in his destination
Fulfilled promises are each reached through process
Though generations may unfold to get full access
On this broken road, we find the content of our hearts
Meandering in paths from which faith never departs
Despite the twin conceptions of their blatant contentions
Each for the birthright of every pressing intention
Half of our lives are spent running from something
Until we face ourselves turning from that nothing
We often wrestle ourselves until light of daybreak
Finding our blessings as we struggle past heartbreaks
Knowing that it's possible to get what all you got
To realize what you felt you needed feels forgot
Wrestling with God to lean in through solitude
We reach for the peace in which discipline exudes
Prayer includes our listening to God's good plan
This is sufficient to quiet the storms in every man
We can't let our crises become the cause of strife
Instead walking in the stillness needed to fulfill our lives
Looking at the righteous stubbornness of Ezekiel
We search to find our truths in the metaphysical
In our houses, we are determined to not lose these fights
Instead moving forward, as if, we are armored knights
Profiting from our problems, we move into the flow
Leaning hard past the circles of constant undertow
Filled by the full surrender found in our devotion
Standing firm in God's blessings past our conditions
We, too often, keep our eyes on those things physical
When the answers we need are more often in the spiritual
When we come to know just who it is that we are
We begin to own ourselves as we reach for the stars
Admission of this is the price of our blessed admission
In which repentance holds the grace of being our concession
And being open to our real selves waiting for our detection
That we might be made righteous in our holy perfection
Facing the world truthfully in all that we come to face
When through the Father and ourselves, we will embrace
Taking our situations on and into being loved and forgiven
It is by these purposes that we must keep true and driven
Like a caterpillar comes to grow its beautiful wings
It takes the needed metamorphosis that faith brings
In this moment, all of God's promises are fulfilled
It is through this faith, our very best becomes revealed
Have the courage to be seen for who you really are
Past the insecurity and fears, you are born a superstar
It is who we are in Christ and by keeping Him primary
We, as children of God, are all part of this holy family
(c) June 12, 2022 Michael Doyle
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