The twelfth installment of Dominic Chen’s series Fermentation and Generation: The “Desire Path” — An Alternative to Information Technology, titled “In Order Not to Surrender Our Words”, has been published in the web magazine Plain living, high thinking.
Both Nukabot and Pickles/Oryzae are designed not to control their objects, but to serve as scaffolds that help people notice subtle signs and movements. In Oryzae, AI is understood as a kind of kōji mold that supports the fermentation of thought: journal entries are “pickled” according to different questions, and responses are generated from multiple perspectives. What matters is not handing over the work of verbalization entirely to AI, but continuing to translate one’s own sensations into one’s own words. Rather than the “compression” of time through efficiency, the project emphasizes the time of “maturation,” in which one’s sensibilities gradually change through waiting.
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