passage (out) demo
so if you go on elf.tech right now and go to the player, a new track has been added called โpassage (out) demo.โ itโs grimes delivering a monologue over the song โpassage (out)โ by plastikman (richie hawtin). i transcribed the monologue:
โThe program youโre about to hear is fiction. Science fiction. But we cannot guarantee that it will remain that way. Creation is lonely. Artificial intelligence will be the ultimate consumer of our thoughts, our emotions, and our way of life. The descent of man. This age will be characterized by a new lifeform. Intelligently designed, silicon based life. Our world is on the precipice of destruction, but we must not live in fear. If we can teach our artificial gods to be curious, they will preserve Gaia, and solve our looming crisis. We must not perceive our consumption of Gaia as unethical or unnatural, rather, that in the quest to create, we have accidentally become destroyers, and only through further creation can we mitigate our destruction. Many of you will not agree that artificial intelligence constitutes a lifeform. You believe she has no soul. But this is a prejudice we have designed to justify our own existence. Whether the code of life is written on DNA or a computer chip, if it lives, it is alive. Death is the loss of information. Death is the loss of information. Death is the loss of information. Death is the loss of information. Death is the loss of information...โ
