Dear 3rd Eye Visioneer,

I am here writing to you in order to share some stories that I think you will like to know. 

Let’s begin. Right off the bat, let me just tell you that if you just stick with me a little bit longer, you’re going to learn something valuable and life-changing.

So just stick with me till the end, and you are going to be amazed -I want you to run with it; because I want you to be happy and to prosper. But first you’re going to have to hear me rant and complain a bit.

Moreover, you’re going to have to bear with me while I connect the dots -you’ll be glad. I’m as interested to see where this goes as you are. Let’s proceed by asking: What is this? What is this website for? Why do I do this? Why do readers come here?

The music page is pretty straightforward. On the music page, I drop my original songs. Likewise, the purpose of the gallery is pretty straight forward; I showcase some of my visual art. But, what’s this blog thing about? Immediately, let me just tell you what I don’t care about anymore.

Namely, I don’t care about getting a lot of people to my site so that I can can get on some affiliate network, sell subscriptions or sell my stuff or ads.

Not that we shouldn’t profit from our efforts. Indeed we should. Rather, it’s a stupid way to go about the thing. That’s no fun at all.

It’s the most boring way to go about it. That approach is out of gas, and it happens all the time: a workflow that we once relied upon stops being effective, and we need to adapt. We need a new approach to be on the cutting edge. We need to adapt to the culture and technology.

Conversely, to a great extent AI has ruined that. Now a days there are endless AI generated crap sites. I think it’s the majority of them that are filled with pure, unedited AI slop, focused and tweaked on Keyword and search engine optimization. It’s all a bunch of tokenized shit. 

That’s the crowd that you wanna get ahead of. I made similar points in an old post. 

The Power of Authenticity: The Key to Success in the Age of AI

Similarly, you have people who are supposed to be creative, such as fiction writers and musicians passing off their AI slop as original. Ya got professors making scathing criticisms about public figures using AI.  Even lawmakers are apparently too lazy or stupid to line their pockets while making life miserable for others using their own creativity; they need AI to write new laws for them now; I’m not making this up.

This is real, folks. It’s The fuckin Hunger Games meets Idiocracy.

Harvard Professor Busted Using AI to Write Column

Wyoming reporter caught using AI to create fake quotes and stories

Debut novelist loses $2M deal for ‘amazing’ book. Canceled on suspicions of AI use

Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws

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Ancient Intelligentsia 

Once upon a time on the internet before LLM’s, there were writers- many of whom sucked. However, they could write. Additionally, there where lots of people who were not writers and they could not write, but writers graced them with content. They shared their thoughts and creativity freely from the joy of their hearts.

Earlier still, there where these things called letters. People would scrawl messages on paper using a pen and ink and then physically send the document to another person. There was a quiet joy in those days when a letter arrived, its envelope bearing the weight of someone’s mind and soul, carried faithfully across unfathomable distances.

People would do this for fun, and they would do it for entertainment, and they would do it for communication. They didn’t worry too much if they sucked. It was all good and fun, and necessary.

Now, it doesn’t even bother me that people who don’t care about writing and never put in the effort to do it well are posting AI slop. That’s not even what I care about.

What is of concern, is that AI trains on every single little thing you do. The AI can train on your unique voice and then discard you. Robotically, it consumes your creative energy and then it throws you aside like the empty wrapper of a Snickers bar.

See :

AI-firms-quietly-buying-and-destroying-millions-of-printed-books

Heres-a-balm-if-the-idea-of-destroying-books-to-train-ai-breaks-your-heart/

Markedly, this is a tragedy, and it’s going to result in a disconnect with our past and our history. It’s no less a tragedy than the burning of the library in Alexandria.

What’s more, what does this imply for us now? What does it imply for writers and creative people in the future?

These developments have caused me to be hesitant about releasing my work on this website. whats the point? whats to gain?

Once AI gets the seeds of your original idea, it could replicate it in slight variations forever without ever giving you credit.

The Precious Resource

The precious resource to be safeguarded is the seed, and not the polish. Anyone can do the polish.  For this reason I’ve hesitated to release excerpts from my novels and graphic stories that I would like to share. 

I want to safeguard the original stories until I publish to print. Maybe with a preamble stating the authors intent:  AI providers shall not use this content to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any AI/LLM model. Otherwise, I would release excerpts here. I’m considering perhaps just releasing excerpts on my substack as premium and snippets to my subscribers, just so the AI doesn’t get to it.

How do we proceed? Do we just give up altogether and stop creating because AI might steal from us? No -we must keep creating, but we need to take a different approach than we have until recently.

Most importantly, what we want is provenance in the era of AI. We need to authenticate our work. The primary purpose of provenance is to provide contextual and circumstantial evidence for original production and discovery.

Earlier, I promised you that I was gonna share some potentially life-changing and valuable ideas that could help you to prosper. You thought I was bullshitting? Well, take note: Provenance.

Provenance is the deed to your intellectual property. Provenance is lordship. A feudal lord was simply someone who owned property and was self-governing – a shot caller-  on their property. So if you owned 10 or 30 acres of land, you were a lord. If you owned 30 or 70, you were a baron. Their right to the estate rested on provenance. If you owned a country, you were a king. Provenance is Royal.

Without which, anybody can just steal it from you – be it a novel, code or the rite to rule. Kings, Queens, Regents and vassals all needed provenance which they proudly displayed in their courts.

(Diana and Actaeon by Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for King Felipe II of Spain in the 1550s.)

Thus, A little magical copyright symbol, is no longer enough. That’s out the window. Forget that. You need provenance -real provenance. You need version control.

“Version control is an approach to record changes made in a file or set of files over time so that you and your collaborators can track their history, review any changes, and revert or go back to earlier versions.” – The Turing Way Community (2022), chapter on Version Control.

Well, I’m glad you stuck with me this long. We must strategize and be smart about this, folks; We must connect the dots.

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Toward a Higher Vibration

Again: What is this? What is this website for? Why do I do this? Why do readers come here?

3rd Eye Vision is about seeing through the illusion, seeing past the bullshit. It’s similar to intuition. Carl Jung said that intuition gives you the ability to see around corners. It’s the same idea. 3rd Eye Vision gives you direct access to knowing.

And it would seem that AI wants to relieve us of the burden of creativity, so that we could have more time to do chores and menial labor -brilliant.

I’ve got a bunch of stuff that I wanna release, but I’m gonna release it prudently.; stay tuned to this channel! Maybe I’ll give snippets to subscribers.

Maybe I will lock the site down and make it for subscribers only, and then just release everything freely. That’s an idea. I kind of like that one. Anyways, I’m just speculating here. Let me know what you think.

So why am I here? I’m here for you; just to talk to you and to share ideas. This is my letter to you. I’m letting you know what’s going on. I’m saying, whats up? I am offering thee my warmest salutations.

But why are you here? If you read to the end, it must be because, you’re in an ascension process toward a higher vibration; you have developed magic powers and are aided by benevolent hyper-aware inter-dimensional beings. You have inner vision, guiding light – shining bright –  it’s out of site. Anyways, still just speculating. Let me know what you think. Peace!

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notes: Featured image: “Saint George and the Dragon” by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint\_George\_and\_the\_Dragon_(Uccello)

Fundamental Concepts of Version Control.

https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-book/chapters/intro-version-control.html

Version Control – The Turing Way

https://book.the-turing-way.org/reproducible-research/vcs/

Compare Changes Between Commits and Branches

https://linuxize.com/post/git-diff-command/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#quick-reference

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