an AI robot may ask you what value you offer. Are you prepared to answer?
I’m not.
Unless it’s interested in what it feels like to be barefoot in the grass.
If it examines you in a lab to see if you contribute, do you think you’d pass?
I wonder what will be the criteria.
I hope it will observe my peek-a-boo skills that can make a baby laugh.
Actually, it can probably do that.
Perhaps it will be more interested in the tear I shed when doing so.
I ran out of ideas so I asked an LLM to help me distill our value.
It said: “you turn suffering into stories, music, humor, and solidarity.”
Will it understand a Basquiat?
“You imagine futures that have never existed, then cooperate – imperfectly – to build them.”
Except for our cycles of repetition.
“You treat particular things as irreplaceable: this person, this place, this moment.”
Some cultures better than others.
“You can recognize your own cruelty and – sometimes – change course.”
I hope,
more than anything,
we continue to prove this one.
SEEDS 