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Discussion on: Can code be poetic?

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Michael Tharrington

This is a really deep take! I'm probably gonna need to read through it a few times to fully understand, but I think I get the gist and it's super interesting.

You mentioned "especially when you're working for the industry" and I think what you're getting at here is that when you're coding for someone to make money, you're doing a job and that feels in opposition to writing poetry which is typically thought of more as a creative expression that was made for the sake of the expression (and not to bring in cash).

But, if someone is coding for themselves, exploring methods, and creating more for the sake of creation and self expression than for dollars, then that would be more in line with writing poetry.

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dantiel

as a human being I am in-between AI, robotics and nature with its consummation needs, I code therefore I am, which is untrue because more true in robotic language will be, I am coded, therefore I am.
If I can write an AI that writes poems, to get dollars for it, then both the code of this program and its return value will be poems, but it will be a very terrible one to read.
there must be a recipient which probably must have a soul or a conscious. so if you think that a machine has a soul or conscious, every bit of zero and one will be part of a breathtaking poem.... but coding and language is related because it means compression of information on a higher level of abstraction, by AI machines may replace our brains but not our deepest inside. when I write a poem, I ask my stomach about his opinion, if he gulps, then it is good, false otherwise.