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I quit my job last November to spend 2025 as a full-time writer. I’ve been publishing regular essays and podcasts on my personal newsletter—from what “AGI” means to an interview with Taiwan’s Audrey Tang. Today I’m cross-posting an essay on LLMs and the oral culture revival. If you’d like to follow my work there, I’d appreciate a subscription! (And everything’s free, but paid subscriptions are lovely—this is how I make money now.) —Jasmine Subscribe to me! Originally published as “the post-literate society” at jasmi.news. A full year before ChatGPT launched in November 2022, OpenAI released the GPT-3 API to little public fanfare. The AI research community was following, but most others hadn’t realized how quickly deep learning had advanced. Likewise, while DeepSeek’s core technical innovations were revealed in the V3 paper published last year, it took the open-source launch of R1 and its app to send shock waves across the public markets. Why the disparity? When playing with product ide

Essays Talk Is Cheap On LLMs and oral culture Jasmine Sun Apr 13, 2025 34 4 1 Share I quit my job last November to spend 2025 as a full-time writer. I’ve been publishing regular essays and podcasts on my personal newsletter —from what “AGI” means to an interview with Taiwan’s Audrey Tang . Today I’m cross-posting an essay on LLMs and the oral culture revival. If you’d like to follow my work there, I’d appreciate a subscription! (And everything’s free, but paid subscriptions are lovely—this is how I make money now.) —Jasmine Subscribe to me! Talk Is Cheap Originally published as “ the post-lite

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