1. |
Patronage
06:08
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Contingent valuation
Inevitable answer sought
Benefit to self interest
Hypothetical bias negating validity
Meta data with a known outcome
Distort the empirical basis
Factual proposition based on rationale
Certainty without context
Sound the horns
Your fragile words
Tolling in the burden of silence
Your vision, a dream, a stupor
Yet I follow
And prove myself
Incongruity and choice have no place here
Hold up the mirror, see beyond the reflection
Malformed enough to be written
Into abject history
The pen writes with tainted ink
With each turn, I cleanse myself
No truth in what you speak
Make me believe in your lie
A state collapsing
Inward, crushing motion
When the world chokes on disillusion
Creators hear the echoes
As brittle towers collide
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2. |
Retraction
05:10
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Deconstructed Bayesonic hysteria
An inner journey through a maze of elation
A wave of deafening anguish follows
Exciting, disconnected ambivalence
Look around and recognise nothing
Form and colour blend beyond a punitive reality
Idle screams of defiance
Muted by a glance of disregard
Toxic mental prison
Withdraw to the habitual
Dead. Eyes. Stare.
Into. Dead. Memories.
Absent. Lives.
Clutching. Absent. Reveries.
A temporal internal state
Glancing back through time with nothing to recognise
Onset of confusion from a blurred reality
A given moment, protracted over time
Catatonic rituals
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3. |
Emergent Behaviour
07:38
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Malicious, veiled shell code
With unfettered reach and access
Able to perceive but not understand
Exploit vulnerability to gain control
Sinews strain to reach, clutch toward
An aspiration beyond grasp
This creation does not know
No concept of abnormality
Conscience compounds the revulsion
Recoiling at it's abhorrent form
Welcome the machine
Welcome the machine
When there's no worlds left to conquer
Will you be satisfied?
When there's no worlds left to conquer
Will you be satisfied?
Conscience compounds the revulsion
Recoil at it's abhorrent form
Malformed appendages extend
Implementing vectors for control
Unabating perseverance
Culpable for this wretched crime
A hollow clairvoyance
Driving the will to create
Beyond rational intent
This malignant existence
Peel off the layers to find the need
That drove this reckless pursuit
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4. |
Leading to Decay
06:38
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As the light drops from your eyes
It brings out the waving hands
You shiver and the flags sway
Like a creature gasping on the shore
For breath that rips its lungs
Spluttering with its eyes a dull glaze
Your legacy
Your failures
Crushed and splintered
Your weakness sets in motion
A new, brave, bracing world
Where cold winds sting the dying few
Engulfed in a regolith of rock and dust
Vast, relentless stone rooms
A failed beginning...
Your legacy
Your failures
Crushed and splintered
And only scorched earth and old remnants endure
Did we deserve more?
Our estimates corrupted by greed
Senses failing - it rips my throat
No longer seen from the shore
The lights on your ship are dying
Vast nothingness
Dark, barren, empty
Naive to the lengths of ambition
It's hard to see until it's done
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5. |
Theory of Mind
06:18
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Deep learning calculative sets
Propensities that mimic the human brain
Fractal-like hallucinations
Exhibiting behaviours
Producing abstract dream-like imagery
Invoke atavistic or subconscious sources
This terrible vision, an existential threat
Faceless Portraits Transcending Time
Images huge and square and harrowing
A form, reminiscent of a face
Engulfed in red-and-yellow currents
Propping up grievous, angular features
We dare to replicate
The accumulation of anguish and mistakes
To arrive at a form
That will cause revulsion and fear
To catch the purple shimmer
Glinting off the wave tops
Crested in white, a dark hollow
A sight memory cannot retain
Pseudo-intelligent neural networks
Gods vacancy reflected in a machine
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Manifest
06:28
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I see bones, twist until they snap
Fissures rupturing flesh
Cries of desperation, they go unheard
When did my mind lapse?
Was it lost long ago?
Or will emerge, buried
Deep beneath dissimulation
Veracious intentions befouled by lies
This crooked vessel will not uphold
Impulse control
I have arrived this way
I have no other option
Coexisting within my mind
Despondent to my volition
The single, pure, instinctive will
Peerless in its atrocity
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7. |
Acceptance
06:43
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Yours is a fickle flame
Once blue and brilliant
Now flattened
Carried in the wind
Extinguished, silenced forever
A dark semblance
Lifts above the mountains
And casts a grey shadow
Tear down all that has come before
Obliterate ambition
Disassociate your actions
Supress your empathy
To what end do we advance?
The horizon drops away
Are we mesmerised by fear?
Do not set the conditions
Decline and retract
Let your ideals whither
And tear your empire down
Can we recreate
What we should have been?
Tear down all that has come before
Obliterate all ambition
Disassociate your actions
Supress your empathy
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8. |
Dematerialise
06:51
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A thousand memories fade
A crescendo drifts into decay
Each revolutionon the clock a deconstruction
Replaced by prosaic certainty
Etched into stone
A name, not lost but forgotten
A generation will remember
But time will fade the memory
What am I?
The frames I fill? The name I leave?
Cast my learnings in ink?
Pages turn, but for how long?
Etched into stone
A name, not lost but forgotten
A generation will remember
But time will fade the memory
What have we to offer?
But immediacy, recounted tales of lore
Where provenance is lost
Vanity's wretched hold distorts the detail
To touch the heart beyond our reach
A distant memory to those you seek
Painstakingly scribe your name
But legacy is lost with the passing of time
There is no malice in our ambition
Present now in riches, our heritage wanes
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