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Claude.ai's Mistake in Linking Desire with the Imaginary
As I said in my last post, I'm experimenting with talking to Claude.ai and ChatGPT about psychoanalysis.
Recently, I've been discussing jouissance, desire, and love with these LLMs.
I saw that Claude.ai formulated was desire as imaginary, jouissance as real, and love as a
Claude AI on Jouissance, Desire, & Love
I've been experimenting by engaging both Claude.ai and ChatGPT in discussions about Lacanian theory and practice.
For the past few days, I've been talking with both of these LLMs about jouissance, desire, and love. Some of the things they have said about how these three
Ice in the Window
This window has a piped seal. Today, it is so cold the moisture inside the pain of glass froze.
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Nick Cave, Loss, & Calsification
Referenced in this episode:
* The Read Hand Files
* Nick Cave (Wikipedia)
* Faith, Hope, & Carnage (Amazon)
* Freud Morning in Melancholia (Wikipedia)
Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear
A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT.
Had you told us back then, that the key to it all lay and deliberate repetition, we would have never believed you. But it's true. It's through re-walking that I've come to
TBOT: Good Sentences
Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived.
I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked:
Folks here harbored their own sense of decay.
The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if
AI & Abduction
Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's essay on AI in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section on how AI uses a process called abduction when it produces responses to what we ask it/prompt it
From78 S2.E017
Nick Cave & The Red Hand Files
Referenced in this episode:
* The Read Hand Files post I read out loud.
* Nick Cave (Wikipedia)
* The Botman's Call (Apple Music, Spotify)
* The Murder Ballads (Apple Music, Spotify)
* Faith, Hope, & Carnage (Amazon)
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Carin & The Arc of a Life
Referenced:
In this episode, I read two short text sections from the book Carin by Kathleen Jamie.
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