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Book Review: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word — EA Forum

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I went looking for a meatier definition of a 'meme', hoping to find something that could be leveraged to understand both current events in machine learning, and co-evolving understanding of consciousness that goes hand-in-hand with every major ML breakthrough these days. I haven't found it yet, but I am making progress. Before I summarize my overall progress, I will review a couple of the most interesting and under appreciated works I have stumbled upon on the way. Broadly under the topic of 'memetics', but far enough outside the envelope that it is not even in the Wikipedia article, I nevertheless found this book to have more insight and value about the nature of the word and its relationship to thought than most papers I read on memetics. I imagine work like this (aka memetics generally) ending up somewhere near the top of the interpretability stack being built on LLMs. At the very least as a way to marry public-facing discourse with technical details, at the best as a quantitative d

76 Counting animals: Stable population size is not equivalent to priority level abrahamrowe , mal_graham🔸 · 1w ago · Curated 5d ago · 16 m read abrahamrowe , mal_graham🔸 + 1 more · 1w ago · Curated 5d ago · 16 m read 5 5 AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix. Cross-posted from Good Structures. Executive Summary * Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...

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