philosophy MA here. The point about derrida was actually pretty good -- I've myself reflected that Derrida, Deleuze and a couple of other French poststructural

philosophy MA here. The point about derrida was actually pretty good -- I've myself reflected that Derrida, Deleuze and a couple of other French poststructuralists got weirdly close to the same basic ideas that power LLMs (high-dimensional spaces, etc.) The Derridan trope that always hits me when I see AI art is the 'virtual image', which, IIRC, is about as close to 'the latent space' as I could hope to find in source materials so far apart. Which is impressive, and, in a way, helps support the LLM/transformer paradigm -- if we're seeing results that were carefully deduced sixty years ago with a wildly different methodology, it suggests that both Derrida and ML research are on, if not the right track, than at least, a shared track; that's in itself a result. If you assume that any use of the word 'Derrida' is a form of education-signalling, you're probably taking a cognitive shortcut.