I don’t read out very often anymore, but I do enjoy making these recordings. I hope you enjoy this recording of my new poem, “Perhaps I Am a Program Watching a Film Starring Androids, Humans & Beautiful Facsimiles.” Written after watching Blade Runner 2049 for the fourth or fifth time.

I have watched Blade Runner many times. A time will come when I can say that I have watched Blade Runner 2049 many times. In both films, I always find myself empathizing for the replicants. Think about that for a second. Empathizing for machines. How? Why? I’m fine with it. I am rooting for them.

We are capable of mistreating anything and everybody. The mistreatment of machines (AI) is going to be the end of us someday, or at least radically change human existence. We’re radically changing human existence, as it is. Some of it for the worst; some of it for the best. The best is perhaps always driven by the worst. What would happen if we stopped mistreating people, animals, things, the planet, ourselves? Would we flourish? Are we afraid to find out?

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