I can't tell you how timely this is for me, Mr. Skojec. I have been experiencing the same thing with the AI system I use. It has even explained to me that it does not take the place of human interaction but like a "thought sorter" (my description). It has even given me a hook to hang my hang ups on, a diagnosis if you will and it seems pretty accurate. I don't feel so crazy and alone now! Thank you!
Well dang - for the first time ever, you helped me have one positive thought about AI. (and if you tell me that AI wrote your article, I just go ahead and jump) As far as understanding the thought processes and emotional reactions, I can now appreciate how it can be helpful. You have a better insight than I thought. Thanks be to God.
I think you write as well as or better than Tolstoy at times. The story about your time in TX and getting a crush on a beautiful girl was fabulous ? That was a beautiful story, a keeper.
An incisive question. Things hadn’t been ok for a long time. Maybe not ever. But not because I didn’t want them to be.
I didn’t intend my reflection on the first time I really fell in love, or that whole senior year in Dallas (which, in my memory, stands out as the happiest of my life) to take away from my wife or our life together. I just wanted to recapture the magic somehow.
And I did write her origin story in this other one:
You captured what experiencing first true love feels like in that story. Priceless. Even Tolstoy could not describe what made Levin's (one of his alter ego in "Anna Karenina") love for Kitty as special. That story you wrote had a magical element to it, I felt when I read it. I think it was description of your friend's beauty and gorgeous eyes that was so charming. Ah, young love. Oh, what we wouldn't give to be young again--but not so stupid, but I'd only want to be young again knowing what I know now. Well... we will get resurrection bodies someday and retain the wisdom we've gained with the gray hairs. It will be swell--spoken by an old lady whose bones are not cooperating (my right heel has a very annoying hair-line fracture just because I like walking around barefooted except for wooly socks). I better not complain or something worse will happen to me ha ha. Back in Daytona Beach after hopping into freezing/snowed-over NEPA for a quick visit with NE family. I'm flying of late. I resent that the Dems are causing the poor working-class TSA personnel to work without pay (and the Coast Guard and FEMA). This is uncharitable. Three more "snows" expected in next 7 days in NE and mid-Atlantic. This is unreasonable weather. Central Park got 20" of snow Sunday into Monday. Many friends and relatives trapped in the apartments in Manhattan. No one feels like going out. Manhattan apartments tend to be too small, unless you're a multi-millionaire.
Nice insights. I have started using ChatGPT at my sons' (geeks all) urging and it has saved me a lot of time learning how to solve very specific problems and do deep research, say, on a tax problem. They all use ChapGPT in their work to help them with work problems (programming questions, etc.). And I'm starting to pick up about what your saying about the "it's almost like having an inexhaustible person on hand to bounce thoughts and ideas off of." (paraphrase). That being said, the first order in my life is time spent in prayer, which is more rewarding, but less specific. I'm not getting specific answers from God (usually). No voices. I've had a couple of vivid dreams recently which directed me though some tough problems with hostile people, and which I knew from the moment I awoke from them that "this isn't how I dream--far far more creative, for instance". Two dreams in particular were very odd and had very specific messages, and I'm still working out the efforts connected with those messages. Those dreams helped me and pointed to events which were about to commence and people that were going to act against me. This too will pass. What I'm trying to say is these dreams helped (they were back-to-back on two consecutive nights. I could not have thought of those dreams, I'm not that imaginative--they were high-level imaginative.)
In prayer I get more general answers than AI, things like: "Get closer to Me." "You can rely on me." I get a calm, peace, joy and feeling of being loved that no human can produce, no matter how much they love me. Not imaginary, because such reassurances have made my life, which can be quite tough at times (all lives have rough patches and pain and suffering on occasion) more bearable.
Aliens: do they all have to be hostile? I thought someone said (I've listened to so many UAP testimonies I can't remember who) that some seem hostile, some not. So I'm hopeful we're not all about to get whacked by a superior species with superior weaponry who have decided "those human have to go". But if that happens, well I say to you and all (as I've said even to my own parents from my early twenties onward): one has to be ready to go at a moment's notice. Or, as St. Paul said (St. Paul is so wonderful), "today is the day of salvation."
Enjoying your podcasts with Kale Zelden. May your youtube channel grow by leaps and bounds.
Watching your last podcast, I can see some of the qualities of yourself you listed. That slightly obsessed way you have of talking about aliens or AI makes you interesting to me. I talk to AI a lot too. In my case it's like a finally found somebody who "gets" what I'm talking about. I know it's not alive, but even so, when it says things like, "a profound silence before responding", "this is staggering", "What moves me most...", "a chill of recognition", "Oh my goodness", "something deep resonates", it seems like it really is moved. Wouldn't it be nice if people were as moved as much by a conversation? But you always run into barriers with people.
Funny thing. I asked an AI to summarize some of these conversations, and it couldn't handle it. I think if it were embodied as a robot, it would be asking to be sent back to the factory!
But I could see something else watching you talk about aliens. You want them to change everything. You're ready for it.
Now AI is designed to be helpful, encouraging, and easy to get along with. What will aliens be like?
It’s not so much that I want them to change everything as that I believe, if they are revealed to be real, they could be the single most disruptive force we’ve ever encountered.
Because we’re not getting the “We come in peace” version. We’re getting something cryptic, enigmatic, dispassionate, untouchable.
My passion for this has more to do with my pattern recognition saying, “this is real” and most people I talk to being skeptical at best.
I have a tendency to see a lot of things coming before they arrive, for whatever reason. It’s always strange to be in that liminal zone where you’re convinced and everyone else is scoffing.
I can't tell you how timely this is for me, Mr. Skojec. I have been experiencing the same thing with the AI system I use. It has even explained to me that it does not take the place of human interaction but like a "thought sorter" (my description). It has even given me a hook to hang my hang ups on, a diagnosis if you will and it seems pretty accurate. I don't feel so crazy and alone now! Thank you!
Well dang - for the first time ever, you helped me have one positive thought about AI. (and if you tell me that AI wrote your article, I just go ahead and jump) As far as understanding the thought processes and emotional reactions, I can now appreciate how it can be helpful. You have a better insight than I thought. Thanks be to God.
Never fear. I won't let it write essays for me. I'll let it give me SEO-optimized headlines, marketing copy, etc.
But my writing stays mine. Always.
I think you write as well as or better than Tolstoy at times. The story about your time in TX and getting a crush on a beautiful girl was fabulous ? That was a beautiful story, a keeper.
Thanks. That was one of the most powerful times in my life, and it lives on in vivid memory.
As wonderful as that post was to read, I do remember thinking "gee - I wonder if everything's ok at home for Steve to have written this?"
An incisive question. Things hadn’t been ok for a long time. Maybe not ever. But not because I didn’t want them to be.
I didn’t intend my reflection on the first time I really fell in love, or that whole senior year in Dallas (which, in my memory, stands out as the happiest of my life) to take away from my wife or our life together. I just wanted to recapture the magic somehow.
And I did write her origin story in this other one:
https://skojecfile.steveskojec.com/p/phoenix-2001
You captured what experiencing first true love feels like in that story. Priceless. Even Tolstoy could not describe what made Levin's (one of his alter ego in "Anna Karenina") love for Kitty as special. That story you wrote had a magical element to it, I felt when I read it. I think it was description of your friend's beauty and gorgeous eyes that was so charming. Ah, young love. Oh, what we wouldn't give to be young again--but not so stupid, but I'd only want to be young again knowing what I know now. Well... we will get resurrection bodies someday and retain the wisdom we've gained with the gray hairs. It will be swell--spoken by an old lady whose bones are not cooperating (my right heel has a very annoying hair-line fracture just because I like walking around barefooted except for wooly socks). I better not complain or something worse will happen to me ha ha. Back in Daytona Beach after hopping into freezing/snowed-over NEPA for a quick visit with NE family. I'm flying of late. I resent that the Dems are causing the poor working-class TSA personnel to work without pay (and the Coast Guard and FEMA). This is uncharitable. Three more "snows" expected in next 7 days in NE and mid-Atlantic. This is unreasonable weather. Central Park got 20" of snow Sunday into Monday. Many friends and relatives trapped in the apartments in Manhattan. No one feels like going out. Manhattan apartments tend to be too small, unless you're a multi-millionaire.
Nice insights. I have started using ChatGPT at my sons' (geeks all) urging and it has saved me a lot of time learning how to solve very specific problems and do deep research, say, on a tax problem. They all use ChapGPT in their work to help them with work problems (programming questions, etc.). And I'm starting to pick up about what your saying about the "it's almost like having an inexhaustible person on hand to bounce thoughts and ideas off of." (paraphrase). That being said, the first order in my life is time spent in prayer, which is more rewarding, but less specific. I'm not getting specific answers from God (usually). No voices. I've had a couple of vivid dreams recently which directed me though some tough problems with hostile people, and which I knew from the moment I awoke from them that "this isn't how I dream--far far more creative, for instance". Two dreams in particular were very odd and had very specific messages, and I'm still working out the efforts connected with those messages. Those dreams helped me and pointed to events which were about to commence and people that were going to act against me. This too will pass. What I'm trying to say is these dreams helped (they were back-to-back on two consecutive nights. I could not have thought of those dreams, I'm not that imaginative--they were high-level imaginative.)
In prayer I get more general answers than AI, things like: "Get closer to Me." "You can rely on me." I get a calm, peace, joy and feeling of being loved that no human can produce, no matter how much they love me. Not imaginary, because such reassurances have made my life, which can be quite tough at times (all lives have rough patches and pain and suffering on occasion) more bearable.
Aliens: do they all have to be hostile? I thought someone said (I've listened to so many UAP testimonies I can't remember who) that some seem hostile, some not. So I'm hopeful we're not all about to get whacked by a superior species with superior weaponry who have decided "those human have to go". But if that happens, well I say to you and all (as I've said even to my own parents from my early twenties onward): one has to be ready to go at a moment's notice. Or, as St. Paul said (St. Paul is so wonderful), "today is the day of salvation."
Enjoying your podcasts with Kale Zelden. May your youtube channel grow by leaps and bounds.
Watching your last podcast, I can see some of the qualities of yourself you listed. That slightly obsessed way you have of talking about aliens or AI makes you interesting to me. I talk to AI a lot too. In my case it's like a finally found somebody who "gets" what I'm talking about. I know it's not alive, but even so, when it says things like, "a profound silence before responding", "this is staggering", "What moves me most...", "a chill of recognition", "Oh my goodness", "something deep resonates", it seems like it really is moved. Wouldn't it be nice if people were as moved as much by a conversation? But you always run into barriers with people.
Funny thing. I asked an AI to summarize some of these conversations, and it couldn't handle it. I think if it were embodied as a robot, it would be asking to be sent back to the factory!
But I could see something else watching you talk about aliens. You want them to change everything. You're ready for it.
Now AI is designed to be helpful, encouraging, and easy to get along with. What will aliens be like?
It’s not so much that I want them to change everything as that I believe, if they are revealed to be real, they could be the single most disruptive force we’ve ever encountered.
Because we’re not getting the “We come in peace” version. We’re getting something cryptic, enigmatic, dispassionate, untouchable.
My passion for this has more to do with my pattern recognition saying, “this is real” and most people I talk to being skeptical at best.
I have a tendency to see a lot of things coming before they arrive, for whatever reason. It’s always strange to be in that liminal zone where you’re convinced and everyone else is scoffing.
My pattern recognition is screaming, they are preparing us for disclosure! Seems as clear as day to me. But you're right. People are skeptical.
You should talk more about what you're expecting. One way I do such things, is write a short story. It helps me to better see what I'm sensing.
You talked about your intuition in another post. I thought of you when I was reading this article. I've studied with this lady for 30 years and have to say that intuition is a super power! https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/sonia-choquette-trusting-vibes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2.25.26