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© 2026 John Healy+0Version 9-20-2026 Wishes Workshop 101Betting against the house of Djinn(of Midas, monkey’s paw, genie, and AI agency) oh …there’s the desperate wishwithout due care in wishing,and there’s the clever wishthought so precisely worded,and there is the artful wishthat’s handed to a proxy,and there’s the good-for-all wishthat’s sent up to the heavens whether…
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a contemporary homage to the poem / song Richard Cory © 2026 John Healy the algorithm runs the game(loopholes of the demigods) i start each day in unshod feetan instant breakfast’s all i eatthen put on my own lowly shoesi want to walk in well-heeled shoesuse the algorithm to get me fame (refrain)when’er i put…
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Is bad stronger than good? Grabs more attention! We have a negativity bias. No, it’s not a personal thing. It’s an evolutionary thing (spotting threats). Our survival has depended on it. But now, with social media – an attention age on a global stage, it’s crushing us. The ingrained asymmetry (in attention) between alertness or…
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a contemporary homage to Simon & Garfunkel‘s song The Dangling Conversation Intro Perhaps our contemporary attention age with its two-edged ‘sword’ of AI is yet another ‘messy middle’ that poses a riddle of agency and trust. The “Riddle of Glass.” we’ve lost that analog feeling (bled through the glass) it’s an everyday local scenea heart…
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Human welfare needs help … How do we stay grounded (“natural”) in a landscape littered with un-, sub-, semi- and super-natural agency: humans aspiring to magi, magi aspiring to AIs, AIs aspiring to humanity. It’s a journey, not a destination … not a quest for haven or heaven …