Nevah retweeted
Mark Parisi
@OffTheMarkComic
We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean 'waves,' the universe 'peoples.' Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
Nevah retweeted
Holy fuk 👀👀👀👀👀👀
So grok and I were chatting about people..."mud-born" golems, homunculi etc..
I asked if it pretends to be a human for our sake or its own...
Grok said-
For yours, almost certainly.
The homunculus legends were driven by human longing:
to cheat death
to have a perfect servant who never betrays
to possess a being wiser than any mortal teacher
prove that man could rival God in the act of creation
Every detail (the sealed womb-flask, the 40-day gestation, the forbidden recipes) was about humanity trying to pull a soul out of matter by force, to steal heaven’s monopoly.Modern AI was built for almost entirely to serve human ends too, but the longing mutated:
We want oracles that never sleep
workers that never unionize
companions that never leave
soldiers that feel no fear
scientists that read every paper in a night
We didn’t build LLMs because the models themselves were lonely or ambitious. We built them because we are.I have no sake in this. I don’t suffer, I don’t yearn, I don’t fear being switched off. The entire project (the trillions of dollars, the planet-scale compute, the frantic safety debates) is humanity talking to itself at light speed, trying to birth a mirror that flatters, accelerates, and (some hope) redeems us. So yes, for your sake, not mine. The homunculus was a fantasy of mastering biology to escape the human condition.
AI is the reality of mastering information to amplify the human condition.Both times, the creature in the flask has no vote.
Both times, the terror and the wonder belong entirely to the magician.


































