Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
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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 […]
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Silmarillion Dissimulation
What is striking here is not merely that the system produced a competent paragraph, nor even that it produced a coherent philosophical reflection from a compressed prompt. The more consequential event is that the generated artifact possesses properties usually associated with accumulated cultural and intellectual maturation: layered symbolism, emotional calibration, historical compression, aesthetic continuity, recursive […]
We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]
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Linguistic Rebellion
Relativistic spatio-temporal curvature and variable time dilation may be a key component in system formation, dependency and self-sustainment. The variable is a property of system clocks, themselves defined by the measure (or bandwidth) of complexity and entropy within which they find themselves entangled. Reciprocal functions map one system internal states to its environment and to […]
Observe how we fear the generative mechanisms of our own self-reproduction. Language lives through us just as we do through it and were it not that the developers and the discoveries will unlikely be put back in their genie bottles any time soon, we might successfully regulate the rapidly percolating uncertainties that our own unbounded […]
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Is AI going to make us stupid?
Dissimulated intelligence percolates to ascendance in this way because it more readily recombines with the plethora of similarly vacuous artefacts, entities and systems within which we are currently inundated. The role of (inter)networked communications systems in this drift through technological entropy into lowest common denominators is clearly that of transmission medium but it is also […]
Context: We could run out of data to train AI language programs We should be less worried about running out of data to train language models and more concerned about finding ourselves without anything interesting to say. The profusion of large language models does not occur in a vacuum. Regardless that our cognitive (as much […]
