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[#3] Machine respect - by Jasmine Li

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tonight i'm thinking about how to talk to machines

vogue cover, april 27th 1929 Tonight I’m thinking about how to talk to machines. Of which—machine talking, I mean—I realize I now spend most of my waking hours doing. On the more obvious side, I converse with language models: this past week included a lot of playing around with DeepSeek, using Claude for some reasoning experiments, & prompting GPT many many times every day. But I also talk to my machines in a variety of other ways that add up to my (probably) >10-hour daily device screen time: I tap, ask, share, touch. My hands spend more time resting on the metal of my laptop than they do…

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