3 Neanderthals loading a wooly mammoth carcass in back of a pickup truck

'If...then' or 'After...and'

I am in the habit of taking logical primitives and examining the original language version of them. So, for "then" in "if...then", I am clear that it simply means to come next, i.e. it has the same meaning as "and".

 - I went to school and went to the store and came home.

  - I went to school then went to the store then came home.

So much for "then". What about the "if" in "if....then"?

I have been considering this as some kind of trigger setup, but more simply it is saying: "after this happens, then that happens". The "if" simply means "after".

The trigger mechanism is related to playing out the narrative.

Cathy Cramer's House in the snow

Now look what the "Copilot" AI did to clean this up:

A nice picture of Esque

The AI did this, which I like.

Still playing with the chatbot imaging

This is its re-rendering of the morning sunlight on snow I sketched the other day.

Interesting. Originally:

Hitting the limit

Not only did I hit a limit on how many pictures I could ask it to draw, I think I reached a limit on the utility of having a chatbot draw my pictures.

Then look what happened:

Testing chatbot image generation

I gave it this text:

Scene: an elderly Red Dragon, wearing glasses and trying to take apart a delicate gear assembly. His claws keep getting in the way and he fumbles a small part on the floor. "Darnit!" he says and emits a small belch, melting the whole thing by mistake. It is tempting to have commentary to the effect that red dragons can spit on themselves by mistake, causing minor pain, like stubbing your toe.