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LLM: What is going on here?

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Post date May 8, 2026
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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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cybernetics

Silmarillion Dissimulation

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Post date May 8, 2026
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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 […]

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cybernetics

The Middle Earth war continues…

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Post date May 8, 2026
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The strange thing about prolonged conflict is not merely that it destroys. It reorganises perception. After enough cycles of outrage, retaliation, spectacle, counter-spectacle, sanctions, declarations, precision strikes, televised rubble, algorithmic tribalism, and strategic ambiguity, entire populations begin navigating reality through symbolic compression rather than direct experience. The war ceases to be geographically localised and instead […]

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Philosophy

Conscious AI?

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Post date May 21, 2023
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I’d be much more worried about an unconscious AI. The impending corporate dissimulation of an omniscient technocratic overlord will attract and acquire all the trappings and recursively self-propagating (human) interfaces of a complex system that maximally self-propagates and self-sustains as a function of the uncertainties it invokes in regards to ambiguities regarding the proof of […]