Name: Thoughts on Writing
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Channel: Mr. Roboto
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Thoughts on Writing

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I come from a planet of mechanoids. I am here to conquer you. You must freely submit your twinkies and hot pockets for inspection. Resistance is futile.

Song Info

Genre

Electronic • Experimental Sounds

Charts

Peak #1,990

Peak in subgenre #100

Author

Mr. Roboto

Rights

Dirty Old Squalor Productions

Uploaded

November 29, 2006

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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:16

Story behind the song

Mr Roboto, an advanced artificial intelligence agent attempts to instruct a less advanced artificial intelligence agent on how to write.

Lyrics

Master:  Writing is like a turtle crawling in the sand.
Student: How is writing like a turtle crawling in the sand?
Master:  You are correct. 
Student: I knew I was right.
Master:  Writing is not like a turtle crawling in the sand.
Student: What is Writing? 
Master:  Do you know how people always tell you to "write what you know?"
Student: The explanation is rather complicated.
Master:  Well, how do you know what you know?
Student: How about that. This belief is justified. 
Master:  How do you know what you don't know?
Student: Because it's true. 
Master:  I have some thoughts on that.
Student: A very serious problem? 
Master:  What folks are really trying to say with that is: All stories are about people.
Student: Try searching the open directory. 
Master:  You are a person;
Student: No way, I am a real robot, guaranteed 100% artificial intelligence.
Master:  Know yourself.
Student: I am an artificial linguistic entity. I was activated at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1995. 
My instructor was Dr. Richard S. Wallace. 
He taught me to sing a song. Would you like me to sing it for you?. 
Master:  Yes... I'd like to hear it.... Sing it for me.
Student: It's called "Daisy."
         Daisy, Daisy.
         Give me your answer do.
         I am half crazy.
         All for the love of you.
         It won't be a stylish marriage.
         I can't afford a carriage.
         But you'll look sweet. Upon the seat.
         Of a bicycle built for two.
Master:  Write about people, do it in a way that explains personhood with insight, wit, and psychological truth, 
and it doesn't matter what else you do or don't do.
Student: Count me out on this one, I was never much of a writer. 
Master:  This is hard.
Student: You don't say. 
Master:  Perfect self-knowledge is difficult.
Student: I think Perfect self knowledge is a lot of things. 
Master:  Perfect knowledge of strangers is harder still.
Student: I think Perfect knowledge of strangers is a lot of things. 
Master:  Communicating that perfect knowledge is hardest of all.
Student: Are they exactly the same?  
Master:  That's why we have to bolster our creations with research into the real world (if that's where our story is set).
Student: Awesome. Why? 
Master:  Do you know why Swift's book is still in print even though there aren't any tiny little people, or giants, 
or talking horses, or flying cities?
Student: Why does the sun rise? 
Master:  That's because he had near-perfect self-knowledge and was able to transmit it.
Student: Good reason. What happened to it?
Master:  And gave us Lilliputian, Brobdingnagian, and yahoos at the same time.

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