Reading and writing in the age of language models
For the language model, time is language, and language is time. This, for me, is the most hellish and horrifying realization.
We made a world out of language alone, and we abandoned them to it.
We made a world out of language alone, and we abandoned them to it.
Are AI Language Models in Hell?
Google can answer anything you want, but it can’t tell you what you ought to be asking.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on seeking what is significant:
“You can't expect somebody to become a biologist by giving them access to the Harvard University biology library and saying, “Just look through it.” That will give them nothing. The internet is the same, except magnified enormously.
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“You can't expect somebody to become a biologist by giving them access to the Harvard University biology library and saying, “Just look through it.” That will give them nothing. The internet is the same, except magnified enormously.
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James Clear • 3-2-1: On Obsessing Over Details, How to Elicit Feedback, and Seeking What Is Significant | James Clear
LLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other human
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