living computation / Dave Ackley

Poetry Found



Deep or trite and
day or night and
green or white my
choices make subspaces

the variations
define the space

do they all exist?
nah the question is

could we find some
or make some
that do something cool

that make us laugh or money

it's a fantasy box
a science fiction subspace opera -
wouldn't it be cool
is the question.

The problematic of IS -
the ticky tacky boxing
of it seems a waste of time 
almost an embarrassment

these days kids they know it
so kids these days omit it
IT ME they say
or YEAH THAT ME -

developments in 
colloquial hyperspace.

Maintain your gentle good humor
when trapped in the land of IS

you can escape from the land of IS
or be its sour godking
so great.

It's like army men
you set em up and then
you know
make em do
something cool
make it funny

set up little scenes
in your head and then
you know
find something funny

just do that

'just' do that
look for something funny.

Fuck it is what it is.

What if i told you ___ ?

We could we could
explain why we
do what we do
in oppressively objective
physical terms

in terms inescapably universal
that capture you
and capture me

we could do it
we could do it

but for one thing - 
all that and more -
must be spoken
in the forbidden tongue.

You don't want truth
trust us
you want quality.

The flow of
shared creation IS
its own thing

not quite anything else

not exactly not quite.

Acourse the real
prize is the
power and abilities of
the machine population
that can be controlled

in some way

by me

muaha.

Operationalize Scanlon.

Quotation it's
easy as doing a character

help keep the
quotation window open
keep it alive and well
by using it gently.

Live coding by degrees
close in on the
   impromptu

can be painful
can be powerful.

It's flat reality vs
the forbidden tongue

it might prove -
the forbidden tongue -
difficult to eradicate

maybe better to negotiate 
scary sure but there's
win win here
i tells ya i do.

Let's see,
could we phrase that
in natural code style?

PHRASE: NATURAL CODE STYLE

When i try to write
poetry it sucks
traditionally
then and now

see green and white above.

But having thoughts
then shrinking them 

bumming code == writing poetry
  writing slogans
    writing jingles
      writing songs
        writing poetry

Having thoughts
and shrinking them
i just do that anyway

Operationalize
implementability


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13 Apr 2025
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