This Is What Wonder Is For

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Good morning, Twfw. O/

On a cold morning you can see your breath.
The Sun rises to show us The World.

We inhale air and sunshine to survive,
To spin this story called Being Alive.

Authors, Artists, Musicians galore, I want to put you at ease regarding AI. A single poem wasn't enough. A consistent honest and free journal as idiosyncratic as each individual sunrise is.

The thoughts, feelings, hopes, and desires of today are not yesterday's. However similar your dreams are to those of days before there's always something new. Sunshine and daydreams never shine the same fire twice.

A digital Large Language Model is a well-organized attic full of yesterday's stuff. Nothing new can be made from it without a new dream from a living, breathing soul.

AI, as amazing and innovative as it is, is nothing but old news.

Despite humanity's hubris much of our information, our 'facts,' are still a flat-Earth Science.

This is what wonder is for: to get humanity to evolve.

A Large Language Model is a limited reflection of what the human mind can do. A sense of wonder, sense at all, is lacking from every algorithm.

We use yesterday's information to help today grow. Science calls the process: Evolution. AI can't evolve; humanity can.

Like the printing press, Artificial Intelligence can help us grow as a species. But it can never make language only recite memories in a pre-arranged fashion.

AI's biggest boon is also why we should be most cautious about it: LLMs can help us learn and grow from our past, or comfortably and tragically bury us in a flat-world yesterday.

So I write every morning to give us all something to wonder about... to keep us going and growing.

Language is the living story of humanity. It's never done, never correct, always evolving.

Like Life.

Wonder what you can contribute to Life to help it grow and make a wonderful day.