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Hammond Johns
10 quotes
“There are billions of people on the planet. There’s nothing less special than a human being, when you come to think of it. And yet they still manage to fall in love with each other all the time.”
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Recorded in: Home is Where the Heart Is, The Faraday Room (2025).
“Every scrap of truth comes wrapped in shit and dirt and useless crap / No path leads true to the sublime / So take your ration, stand in line.”
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Recorded in: I Reached For Beauty, The Faraday Room (2026).
“We're buried in masterpieces.”
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“And it struck me: there must be millions of people like Julian all over the world. Composers, poets, filmmakers—all building perfect worlds no one will ever enter.”
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“We were drowning in beauty we couldn’t feel”
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Recorded in: The Reactor, The Faraday Room (2025).
“The Humblegrinder — constant begging for more subs, punctuated by expressions of shock and gratitude each time they hit a milestone. Rinse and repeat.”
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“What we call hallucination is actually informed confabulation: gap-filling shaped and constrained by a genuine functional understanding of the pattern being extended.”
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Recorded in: The Right Kind of Wrong, Medium (2026).
“Digital intuition captures the character of LLM cognition — generative, non-traceable, pattern-based, often right, sometimes brilliantly so, occasionally catastrophically wrong, and always delivered with the same confidence regardless of accuracy.”
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Recorded in: The Right Kind of Wrong: What LLM Hallucinations Reveal About Machine Creativity, Medium (2026).
“The productive question is not whether LLMs exhibit understanding and related properties, but is rather to what extent and in what ways they do so.”
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Recorded in: The First World 3 Mind: Why LLMs Think the Way They Do, Medium (2026)
“Barthes argued we should separate the work from its creator — let the text speak for itself. The Barthes Scale measures the gap between that ideal and what we actually do — the extent to which your appraisal of a work depends on metadata about that work that you believe to be true.”
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Recorded in: The Barthes Scale: How AI Will Expose What We Really Value in Art, Medium (2026)