REFER TO GREY: Contemplations by Robert Greigos © 2007-2026

Female Humanoid AI Bot. Very Public Human Fatality.
She Did It. I Know She Did. I Saw Her Do It.


So, if creativity is better than competition, mostly due to the vast amount of human emotional and physical waste left in the wake of competition, are we correct to assume creativity, any kind of creativity, is all good? I don’t think so.

Fabricating untruth is most certainly creativity. Yet, few would argue that creating and disseminating untruth is without dubious and, more often than not, deleterious consequence.

“Wait Wait Wait,” you might say. “What about ‘white lies’ and literary fiction? And what about theatre plays and movies and kids playing make believe?”

Personally, I wouldn’t claim literary fiction to be completely without merit, but my grandmother on my father’s side despised fiction. She never told me exactly why, but the considerably large library in her house contained only history, biography, philosophy, and oddly, self-help books. Given the historical period during which she collected all those self-help books, from the 1910s onward, I wouldn’t claim she was entirely true to her goal of excluding fiction. Though quite young, I read several of those supposed self-help tomes. Most seemed more like BS to me. But like I said, I was quite young at the time. Most young people are easily convinced they already have a pretty good idea about what’s what and what’s BS. I was no different.

Have you ever heard of the Trachtenberg System of Basic Mathematics? That was one of her non-fiction books. I tried to read it. It was a quite serious book written by a guy being held prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII, one of the dubious creations of the self-proclaimed Third Reich. Trachtenberg had an interest in mathematics and wrote his book in an effort to keep his mind occupied with something other than the horrors being perpetrated around him. If you have an interest in number theory, you might know of that work. At the time, computers were being invented, and attempts were being made to put them to practical use. As I understand it now, he was looking for short-cut rules, algorithms, to help make solving basic math problems simpler for computers.

Do you remember in grade-school trying to learn long division or how to calculate a square-root? Apparently, Trachtenberg thought that if you could “teach” a computer a short-cut for doing something like that computers might actually prove useful, given their limited useful “bandwidth” back then. Alternatively, as my grandmother erroneously surmised, his methods might also prove easier for anyone, anyone like for instance me at age 7 or 8, to learn to do basic math. Of course, my conclusion at the time was that learning to do math the regular way would be far easier than via his short-cut BS. And actually, I think my grandmother also found his system to be rather useless relative to her interests in numerology, also something I wouldn’t strictly categorize as non-fiction.

The point here is that creation comes in a lot of different flavors. Depending on the interests and intellectual capabilities of audiences, some types of creation can be edifying and even inspiring. Other types of creation can help lead people down some rather dark and destructive paths. It would behoove all of us to become ever wiser in our ability to judge and appreciate human creative efforts. And, I’d certainly recommend within our own creative efforts, to avoid adding to the mindless and intentionally destructive noise currently being propagated widely within the many channels of creative dissemination we now employ across the globe.

As to the images above, they are fact. The caption beneath the above title is absolute fiction, but not entirely beyond the realm of possibility. With the advent of AI, we now have before us a new kind of creator and new types of creation for us to engage with and potentially learn from. Will we? Or, will we let those newer types of creation inspire us to shoot ourselves dead, dead like the fictionally described fate of that pink-shirted man in the image above?

Be creative, but be discerning. We’ve been given a host of gifts in this life, along with opportunity to learn from and make use of them. Let’s all try to more fully appreciate and more wisely deploy all the flavors of that reality.