dweinberger

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   by dweinberger 2y ago

   Hi. I wrote Too Big to Know, and your post intertwingled me with this thread, these books, and you. (Note: I'm taking Google Alerts & Ego Salve as an ironic agent of Ted Nelson's concept of intertwingularity.)
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   by dweinberger 3y ago

   Yes. Lying requires being able to discern truth from falsity. But LLMs don't know what's true even when they say true things. That's why "hallucinate" is a better word ... better but not perfect because for an LLM i
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   by dweinberger 11y ago

   Thanks for spreading the ideas, gonzo. Good to meet you now, these many years later.
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   by dweinberger 11y ago

   Hi, I'm one of the authors. I can certainly see why you'd take it as condescending. At the time, it was generally taken in the sense that we meant it: we were trying to articulate what Web users understood but the media and most b
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   by dweinberger 11y ago

   Sure we should be trying to halt it! How? That's tough. We've got economies of scale and the network effect working against us. But there's a lot going on in a lot of places trying to address this. I'm no expert, but it&
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   by dweinberger 11y ago

   I'm one of the authors. Yes, much of it seems silly. But the fundamental point was that the Internet is a social space, and that is still true. At the time, that was not obvious to most of the media or businesses. In addition, markets