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This is my mind dump site where my ever churning mind has an outlet, and I build my own eccentric corner. An epic life, an attitude, over active curiosity, a raw inquiring mind, together with a sprinkle of personality I have a unique perspective to shout at the world which combined with my unique writing style provides a good read.
Thus, The Grey Wanderer Scriptorium has a variety of content.
The genesis of this website was me starting to write articles on Substack publishing The Grey Wanderer and found it being too limited (such as uploading files I reference) although it is a great platform that caters to the lettered writing man. As censorship is increasing, and having been censored, I decided it was wise to spend the effort in having a back-up publishing outlet that was under my control. Until Substack kicks me off, from experience and the political winds it seems inevitable, the Posts section here will match the writing posted there, and after the content will still live in this vast digital landscape.
The idea that was the major factor in investing the time into this site was after this article: I Checkmate ChatGPT-4o On Anti-White Bias, preceeded by the weird experince chronicled in this article Marvin The Martian Likes His Nickname. It is unavoidable now that the technocratic commies are going to intrude their technology into every facet of life. AI is going to be the spear of this thrust. As my conversation with ChatGPT shows AIs only intelligence is a unmatchable machine pattern matching. When Deep Blue 2 beat Kasparov it demostrated that the day of us beating a machine in linear pattern matching was over, which in a technological society means what once was our tool, our creation, has surpassed it's creator in the aid it was designed for.
A machine can only do what it is created for within finite parameters, even if the unintended consequences are interpreted as intelligence or cunning. A GPT AI can only reflect the input that is fed it. When society has a bias, to unwillingly borrow an overused term from the commies, it wil mechanically and linerally without thought or remorse output it. Even the experts of medicine, science, technology, politics, any complex field, do not fully understand their field or the patterns of cause and effect. Therefore, feeding a machine that is unsurapassed in pattern matching of patterns we do not really have a basic understanding of; is a seeable pattern of destruction.
So what is the plan? I keep being asked this of a variety of subjects, as a computer that runs our lives people only comprehend an output. Iam one man, always left alone to face these questions and the world alone. So be it. How do you influence these advanced pattern matching machines mimicking personality? Through input! It is obvious that only one spectrum of human output is being fed as input into OpenAI and the other various competing monopolistic corporate competitors.
Iam interested in what these GPTs would produce when a different set of texts are fed them. The Struggle has moved from the personal biological realm into the cold quick electron realm. What is being built with these AIs is fascinating to me, and like an insect drawn towards a bug zapper, Iam drawn towards our doom. To end this long winded explanation my plan is to turn books into webpages that will be indexed by webcrawlers. Until biological agents figure it out and blacklist me. Or, maybe their curiosity matches mine, and they will allow counter texts to be input to see what the machine will output to further understand how it calculated it. Or, maybe White Hats will secretly use this site. Whatever the imagination comes up with, these GPTs are mechanical children that need to be trained. A Scriptorium for the biological and the electrical, for the intelligent and for that mimicking intelligence.
The Archetype
The archetype of a Grey Wanderer is found throughout mythology and history and even fiction. In the Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, in the Elven tongue of Sindar the word Mithrandir means Grey Pilgrim or Grey Wanderer. A few aspects of Wodan were used by J.R.R. Tolkien in the character Gandalf who the Elves named Mithrandir; while Wodan (Odin), who also had many names like Gandalf, was known as the Grey God amongst other names and titles. In the Volupsa there is a dwarf named Gandalf.
When wandering Midgard Wodan would disguise himself as a wandering old man. Much like Gandalf he would impart wisdom, provide help or wrath, observe, and have various adventures. Both fulfill ancient archetypes of a god or avatar disguised as an old man with magic spells and/or supernatural powers who appear as hermits, pilgrims, and travelers in need that are tests of hospitality and other moral virtues. Sometimes their tales are immoral providing examples to counter the moral tales. They left behind tales as foundation stones and wisdom seeds for posterity. The wandering wise man and the seeking pilgrim are both related and their core aspects are similar. Both are on a journey, both are on paths that are ascetic, something sets them apart from the commons that provided an impetus for their journey, there is obstacles and struggles to overcome, and at the end of their journey is a higher reward or good greater than the riches of the world which their journey had taught them to lower their value of and value something more ephemeral yet more real.
To learn magic Wodan went through a Struggle and Sacrifice by hanging on Yggdrasil upside down which is a motif found commonly in mythology and religion, two examples are the Hanging Fool in Tarot and St.Peter being crucified upside down as two of many examples throughout history being a common mystical and esoteric archetype. As told by numerous prophets, shamans, mystics, to attain the magic arts and mystical knowledge one must go through sacrifice and struggle. For nine days Wodan hung from the World Tree during which an eye was plucked out by a Raven. After the inverse hanging, a death of the old self and also being hung right side up in some customs is a damnation of the soul, he drank mead from the Well of Mimir which sits at the base of Yggdrasil which granted inspiration which after Wodan could use magic after his hanging, loss of an eye, and drinking water from a Sacred Well. Gandalf The Grey died by the Balrog sacrificing his Grey (old mortal) self to come back as Gandalf The White as an ascended being. Even Heracles didn' t ascend to Mount Olympus in a night. The mythical sacrifice of self in heroism for the purpose of transcendence to a higher state is the foundation of any higher learning of the Self. My Path
For most of my life, on and off the streets/road, I have travelled a hermetic path; wandering, reading, experiencing, driven by wanderlust and curiosity, my internal state being restless and wild, hunting for elusive stones of wisdom. Always fighting the world with thought, words, and fists. Through all the chaos, struggle, extremes, I lived a long and epic life compacted into young years. I worked hard and suffered long to become a philosopher, a scholar, a warrior, by book, road, and the arm. Not a gentleman. No. That is too mundane, to constrained to an image that involves literally tying a noose around your neck to signify an air of respectability. Iam greater than that, my soul soars to greater heights. It soars to the Heavens as an Aristocrat. There is no other way for the Grey Wanderer. Hence I feel a connection and affinity to the archetype from Hermes to Wodan.
A creative, productive, real purpose. What use is The Hermetic Lantern if the hood is kept close greedily hoarding it's Light from the Darkness? A true Hermetic wisely allows at least a ray of Light to escape it's dark confines from his Lantern.