TRUE NORTH
Reindeer pull a sleigh
(through early spring thaw)
on the roof
of the True North
nail salon
*
Signed turn-out
where tourists take snapshots
of the pipeline, elevated
on small plinths,
amid scattered birch
*
Aurora's green sky
gives the mind
what it thinks
it wants: a different
nature, a new world
*
And notes
of a wind chime --
dissonant, rounded --
Nabokov's "nymphets"
fleeting in place
POSE
So the problem we pose
is how to create an intelligent
agent
and then prevent it
from destroying this world?
*
"Content monitoring
that required the AI's
intentional states
to be transparent
might not be feasible
for all architectures."
*
A long green straw
stuck in the ground
with two ears (leaves)
protruding
on either side
at intervals
*
What we meant
by "listening stations"
and when we began
to mean this.
*
Perhaps its goal would be
to have "thoughts"
pass through its "head"
so it could record them.
*
"Preparedness is critical."
"Kiss all hope goodbye."
"A friend wants you to like it."
LIKE
Small white lights
twined around white
dead sticks
under a glass dome
flash -
like getting an idea
was the idea.
*
Like thinking
I want to fall asleep,
each night coming so soon
after the last,
and hosting a string
of tedious dreams
like trying to get back
to my office
*
I head
back in
to clear it
out,
my head
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
1
What are your interests?
I'm interested in the way
interest
creates finitude.
*
Differently translated,
"in choosing itself,
existing being
closes a circuit."
*
Now every sixteen seconds,
the engine will pass the brakeman
with his arm always raised
beside the empty station.
2
What do you want to do?
All impulses come
from the gods,
as we know,
and lead god knows where,
though each hero
has her own set
of god-given epithets,
"Insta-bright"
and
"All-dimming"
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