The indifference engine | Manav B. Ponnekanti
It’s just insane that language models actually work. How is it possible. The world is enchanted. Do you still feel it? A kind of feverish awe? My computer can t
It’s just insane that language models actually work. How is it possible. The world is enchanted. Do you still feel it? A kind of feverish awe? My computer can talk to me, it can teach me, yet it possesses no greater essence than its transistors… Except I don’t really feel like that. Not often, certainly not constantly. I think the most beautiful thing about it all to me is how one is forced to constantly excite themselves into this state. It would be so easy to let it slip into normalcy. “OK. Guess my laptop can talk to me now and teach me anything”. Accept and move on. Kids using them to…
saved by
related reading
- trees are harlequins, words are harlequins - the voidnostalgebraist.tumblr.com
- If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill yousamkriss.substack.com
- A Workaphile’s Apologymoalquraishi.wordpress.com
- Human Routers of Machine Wordsborretti.me
- The internet is already oversamkriss.substack.com
- And Yet It Understandsborretti.me
- Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.workingtheorys.com
- Can computers think? No. They can’t actually do anythingaeon.co
- The largest manufacturer of feelings in human historynataliercargill.substack.com
- The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guessaphyr.com
- Stay inconveniencedsubstack.com
- Babel | Meghan O’Gieblynnplusonemag.com