Speak for the Trees is an experimental project that explores how AI might support the Rights of Nature movement. If equipped with data about an ecosystem and capital to act, what actions might an agent take to support an ecosystem and its guardians?
I do a character to do street photography and that character does another character
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116484421100356111
who is a thēríon and not thoroughly tame like
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116476942582628585
The second character was very easy to do for me, like the foxographer doesn’t need a background story because he is legible and employed. Kitsunekamen does need a background story because he does have to explain himself so I have ‘writing’ to do.
So yeah I am very interested in how you would manifest a voice that speaks for wild things.
-preemptive defence=best offence=plausibly not a school bully
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/you-go-to-war-with-the-pr...
>As the saying goes, you go to [HN] with the [question] you have. And you don’t want a good [problem] ruined [for want of data].
-kitsunehanmen is cool. "coolness" ~ "calm+wild". Isaac Newton with kh, masks inward looking cageyness under outward looking edginess
-enby may not be "approachable". Smiley Ben Franklin is not as cool as a Ben Franklin that threatens cougars just by _being_
Newton: pope=Antichrist
nobody: Newton=Antichrist
Now thēríon is Greek for “wild animal” and I think it a definite slur to say they have anything to do with evil or the devil, they are beleaguered enough on this planet and don’t need insult on top of injury. I am learning to censor my speech and be careful of phrases such as “release the beast” as kitsunekamen and his host would believe that’s a beautiful thing, not a threatening thing.
>"his host would believe"
I spy a 2-month-old Sz host who thinks like me and acts like "you":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952359
>I can see fragments of knowledge that he cannot hide
I would say I disagree with kitsunekamen about a lot of things and as-a-host I know I wind up bearing the karma for his actions. We would love to play the heel, the monster of the day in a mahou shojou anime, to raise hell at the temple and be dispelled by the priestess. But I worry about our rep.
Kitsunekamen has legibility problems (maybe 20% of people are really into Naruto or Demon Slayer and think they know him) and needs a backstory and as a non-fiction actor I have to be careful about it. Obviously the host is a magician who is conjuring the power of a fox spirit with a mask and that power is quite demonstrable in how people perceive (fail to perceive!) him in public. It’s tempting to say “they kicked him out of the ninja village” but claiming to have a lineage is seriously off-brand so it’s got to be some version of “he wrote his own spell that took 300 days to work and later found a version of the spell that was basically the same and tuned up and only takes 100 days”
While in the shower I came up with the following refinement:
Stochastic hubris=best preemptive defence against the gods
(And then what does Kelly say ;)