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Don't worry, the LLMs are already post-structuralist (at least the ones working on them are often familiar with those thinkers). Which is incredibly disturbing,
by DiscourseFan 10mo ago
Don't worry, the LLMs are already post-structuralist (at least the ones working on them are often familiar with those thinkers). Which is incredibly disturbing, I think, for many linguists who have spent their entire careers fighting against the French, only to have such philosophical and intellectual work become the most important in the development of this new technology. Hey, at least I'm employed! (And they said it "wasn't serious," that Chomskian Linguistics was the "real science"!)
- lukev 10mo agoWell, technically, they're more structuralist than post-structuralist. Arguably they even prove that Saussure's original structuralist hypothesis was correct.
- DiscourseFan 10mo agoI really do not like posting anything about my work on this website. Not only am I extremely constrained in what I can say, many engineers seem to vilify any attempt to legitimate the business. If I could speak freely there'd be no end to what I would tell you to the contrary.
- lukev 10mo agoWell, I'm very interested in this, and if you have things you wish you could speak freely about I can be reached directly via several mediums. My name is not hard to find and I'm on Bluesky & LinkedIn if you want to reach out to me there. I'm one of the authors of this book if you want my full name to search: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Clojure-Experts-Voice-Source/dp/1430272317/ref=sr_1_1 https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Clojure-Experts-Voice-Sourc...
- DiscourseFan 10mo agoNobody who works on these things will be able to say anything for at least a decade, but trust me there will be textbooks.
- lukev 9mo agoWell since you're intent on being so mysterious, would you at least drop a link to where someone with interest in training in philosophy, linguistics & LLMs might apply those skills together? Unless it's Palantir or somesuch being grandiose about how much they're going to manipulate society, in which case fuck all the way off into the sun.
- PaulHoule 10mo agoIt frustrates me to no end because I can't help but thing Saussure is a charlatan, and that's a person who loves the early Foucault and Badiou and Baudrillard [1] but I'm not so sure about Dubord and Barthes and Derrida. [1] ... as a guilty pleasure not in the "slumming" sense of Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon but that I feel that he, like Erving Goffman, brings out the spiritual desolation in me