AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
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language
We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
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my neurological double-tap
Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
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language as harmonic structure
Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.
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the conspicuous absence in science
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
At precisely the moment technology allowed us to express our own thoughts with unprecedented speed, ease, and fluency, people began switching off from the flood of language-model-mediated self-expression that followed.
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frustration with institutional orthodoxy
A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.
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corruption
Corruption is not what happens when a healthy system breaks; it is what emerges when enough incentives, privileges, dependencies, and concentrations of power quietly align, turning private advantage into public infrastructure.
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semantic promiscuity
The strangest thing about meaning is that it does not arise from certainty but from its absence. Language works because something always escapes complete description. What remains unsaid is not a failure of communication. It is the condition that makes communication possible.
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what meaning does
Meaning is not stored in words, but sustained in the relations that survive their transformation.
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