I finished reading the thin book "Systemantics" by John Gall yesterday (thanks @dang).

I realized that the problem of AI generated/edited content flooding everywhere around us is a symptom of something wrong with the System.

It might have something to do with sensory deprivation. Here is a quote from the book caught my attention because of the word "hallucination":

> As we all know, sensory deprivation tends to produce hallucinations.

> FUNCTIONARY’S FAULT: A complex set of malfunctions induced in a Systems-person by the System itself, and primarily attributable to sensory deprivation.

(As I typed the text above on my iPhone, I was fighting auto completion because AI was trying to “correct” the voice of John Gall and mine to conform the patterns in its training data. Every new character is a fight against Gradient Descend.)

All you need is attention but the cost of attention is getting higher and higher when there is little worth our attention.

It takes a lot of efforts to be human.

Reading it now on Kindle Scribe without the help of AI ;-).

When I am done, I might simply replace SOUL.md with it and move on.

Thanks for the recommendation. I downloaded both social.pdf and noproof.pdf on my Kindle Scribe to read them carefully and revisited the discussions on EWD638 and EWD692.

It is very interesting to see how Sir Tony diverged from EDW: one is right in theoretical sense but cynical about human fallacies and how the society is heading towards more wasteful complexity, one is to live with it and stay optimistic.

There is a proverb in Chinese Taoism:

小隱隱於野，大隱隱於市

A small recluse hides in the wild, while a great recluse hides in the city

I watched this video a few months ago.

Virtual HLF 2020 – Scientific Dialogue: Sir C. Antony R. Hoare/Leslie Lamport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQbFkAkThGk

RIP: https://youtu.be/tAl6wzDTrJA