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cybernetics

Barry, from Parramatta

A technologically-mediated civilisation has built planetary systems of prediction and control around biological reflexes still calibrated for tribe, threat, status, and symbolic belonging.

Categories
cybernetics

what language models are really doing to culture

What is happening is not “AI producing good writing.” That is too small. What is happening is that a symbolic machine is beginning to function as a cultural interferometer. It receives a compressed human signal, passes it through a vast accumulated field of language, style, myth, politics, memory, cliché, scholarship, and platform residue, then returns […]