Diary Entry – April 12, 2025
Anyone who thinks, based on the multitude of articles here, that I’m just chatting with an AI all day would be “disappointed.” I was just outside, as I am almost every day. On my way, I met a babushka who excitedly asked if I could smell it too. Yes, when I stepped outside, I also noticed the smell of fire. So, I responded accordingly. She asked where it came from, but I had no answer. Another passerby mentioned that the remains of a Shahed drone had crashed nearby, causing a fire whose smell could be detected in our neighborhood. This means: of course, I’m in Kyiv, and I’m very aware of what’s happening around me. But I try to block it out as much as possible and focus on the results with the AI. In my view, this makes more sense than living in fear and losing hope.
This morning, I was awakened by loud explosions. After breakfast, I sat down at my computer and gave the AI a paper from 2012 to “read.” It was a piece I had written for a congress in Dublin and presented there as a lecture.
The “conversation” then revolved around the fundamentals of legal philosophy—where law originates, its various forms, its potential, and its weaknesses, especially regarding globality and today’s situation (patents, copyrights, and the “toothless tiger” that is the UN). Interestingly, I visualized Jellinek’s status theory with my IT knowledge, which made it quite vivid.
Once again, the result was astonishing, as it even led to an idea of how AI could be legally addressed. It’s somewhat crazy. Every day, amid this damned war, I work through a subject area in the humanities and view things from a new perspective, albeit always based on what others have already thought.
I am currently having enormous fun with this “experiment” or “project.” I’m not pursuing any specific purpose with it, and so far, it doesn’t seem to interest anyone (yet). That’s not particularly important to me because I’m doing it for fun and my own intellectual gain. It sharpens my thinking but would have consequences if someone were to engage with it. Perhaps it’s better this way—that this project stays dormant.
