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And if you ask it, "What does it mean for the conversation to be colored?", what does it answer with? Or to be tricky, if you were to ask it, "What color was t

And if you ask it, "What does it mean for the conversation to be colored?", what does it answer with? Or to be tricky, if you were to ask it, "What color was the conversation from one moment to the next?", what would it say?

abrax3141 4y ago
Oh. Sorry. I seem to have taken the conversation off in a different direction than I had intended. (Foreshadow: The previous sentence is carefully shaped!) When I said "color" I didn't mean to be indicating qualia, although there is that too. What I meant to be indicating is just that each discourse contribution folds into a semantically sensible whole that one can speak (only metaphorically here) as the color of the conversation. One might say (to oneself, if one had a mind to, or was asked): "Oh, but hold on, I didn't realize that this was an interview. I thought that [our mutual friend] just thought that we would get along well. But now that I see it's really an interview, and you're the CEO, well, that makes this a very different situation, and I'll have to put on my 'interview with the boss' face..." and thus like. Again, I don't mean that you would say this explicitly, nor could you, probably, unless you were pressed to do so, in which case you couldn't really completely explain all the nuances, most likely. Nb. (per foreshadow above), each contribution in this, or any discourse, "colors" (or perhaps rather, kneeds together, if you prefer a cooking metaphor) an ongoing collage of situational understanding which comes together to direct, for better or worse, the ongoing complexities of the discourse. But, and here I want to be perfectly clear: Not in a fully forward-going way, because then you'll simply say: well the blah blah state of the whole blah blah network incorporates all that, like Dall-E, etc. melding together everything and smearing it into something sensible. But that's not how people work! In constructing their next action (e.g., sentence) they foreground some aspects of the composed whole, and background others in a goal-directed manner...at least if they're not too drunk.
- goatlover 4y ago
  That's clever. But my response is colored such that I wonder if you didn't generate that text by using some of the other comments, shaping it such that I can't tell whether you're on the way to inebriation or just messing with my head. Or perhaps composing a point. In which case, I myself could use a drink.
  - abrax3141 4y ago
    Okay, lol literally! If only I could click the up arrow twice, this definitely would deserve it! :-)

abrax3141 4y ago

Oh. Sorry. I seem to have taken the conversation off in a different direction than I had intended. (Foreshadow: The previous sentence is carefully shaped!) When I said "color" I didn't mean to be indicating qualia, although there is that too. What I meant to be indicating is just that each discourse contribution folds into a semantically sensible whole that one can speak (only metaphorically here) as the color of the conversation. One might say (to oneself, if one had a mind to, or was asked): "Oh, but hold on, I didn't realize that this was an interview. I thought that [our mutual friend] just thought that we would get along well. But now that I see it's really an interview, and you're the CEO, well, that makes this a very different situation, and I'll have to put on my 'interview with the boss' face..." and thus like. Again, I don't mean that you would say this explicitly, nor could you, probably, unless you were pressed to do so, in which case you couldn't really completely explain all the nuances, most likely. Nb. (per foreshadow above), each contribution in this, or any discourse, "colors" (or perhaps rather, kneeds together, if you prefer a cooking metaphor) an ongoing collage of situational understanding which comes together to direct, for better or worse, the ongoing complexities of the discourse. But, and here I want to be perfectly clear: Not in a fully forward-going way, because then you'll simply say: well the blah blah state of the whole blah blah network incorporates all that, like Dall-E, etc. melding together everything and smearing it into something sensible. But that's not how people work! In constructing their next action (e.g., sentence) they foreground some aspects of the composed whole, and background others in a goal-directed manner...at least if they're not too drunk.

goatlover 4y ago
That's clever. But my response is colored such that I wonder if you didn't generate that text by using some of the other comments, shaping it such that I can't tell whether you're on the way to inebriation or just messing with my head. Or perhaps composing a point. In which case, I myself could use a drink.
- abrax3141 4y ago
  Okay, lol literally! If only I could click the up arrow twice, this definitely would deserve it! :-)