So AI is Cool

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Good morning, Twfw. O/

Syntax at sunrise, words from a ghost.

+he Ghos+, to be precise.

Thanks for joining me.

It is a cool avatar, as far as avatars go. Too cool for a capital, or a lowercase 't'.

As the sun comes up on a night whose temperatures are about 30 degrees colder than the days, let's talk about cool.

Are you trending trendy? The soup of the day? Top of the charts?

Something new creates interest. Having a cool moment is like being a flame to the moths of humanity.

More than just a diversion, what is it that makes something cool?

It's novelty; it's the press of Life to grow.

Growth requires change and change always looks new. It's why Artists are so often considered cool. We make things new as a rule for our work.

Making something new resurrects value in something known. Take my handwriting for example.

A few decades ago writing anything at all with a pen was just business as usual. Now, it's a very cool thing to do thank you very much.

Our desire to live our best life attracts us to what's familiar in a new way.

"I didn't realize poetry did that."
-New Favorite Wonder Fell Reader

"Cool, huh?"
-Longtime Fan of Wonder Fell

Making language is a human thing to do because words are alive.

As our understanding of language grows, so do we. The only power that ever changes anything is in a person's ability to use words.

Our capacity to make language is our greatest asset. There's only adaptation and what's called 'natural growth' without it. Humanity evolves through language.

So AI is cool, but it's not the written word's endpoint... or it becomes our endpoint.

A Large Language Model is a lesson from history wrapped up in a video game.

Artists, authors, and musicians know what it lacks: The potential for Beauty.

If we take Wonder Fell's definition of Beauty, that what makes something beautiful is the clear representation of an original dream, artificial language can never be beautiful: Because it can never be original.

Helpful to plan and create with a dreamer, but never makes anything new.

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Over to business and the business of The Epic.

Thanks for reading.