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Yes, the repercussions of this vacuousness are what interest me most. The underlying “systems” and “behaviors” that gave birth to the message are prior to any l
by SanderNL 3y ago
Yes, the repercussions of this vacuousness are what interest me most. The underlying “systems” and “behaviors” that gave birth to the message are prior to any language model, but there, pre-language, is exactly where all changes happen. These changes then percolate to the top, so to speak, as language. I believe you captured this beautifully.
Then you get a bunch of humans that interpret this soulless message, but fail to comprehend the inherent emptiness sufficiently.
I’d say that’s not good, but I have no solution either.
- namaria 3y agoI see very little difference between letting LLMs create language that people and computer systems are expected to act upon and using oracles/'revealed' wisdom/sacred texts which dictate what we ought to want, decide and do. Letting inscrutable systems write the rules is just bad. We have 300 years of humanism building a base for our shared reasoning skills to enlighten the way and giving that up for the convenience of letting noise and chance guide us seems like going backwards.