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‘The view from the column is ever distant’ (Anon, early 21st century) Befuddling mix of politics, art, literary theory, philosophy, financial markets, international relations, cooking, and…dog photos… ‘Wow just wow what a skeeter’ ‘Such a cute dog’
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No you aren’t.
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Yes it does
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Well. Quite.
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I simply do not believe you can bootstrap cognition from discourse
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Well exactly
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Absolutely! Defined corpus of information + highly adept analytical tools = very big deal
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Only ends one way. And the pity is that it obscures the actually valuable innovation.
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And define *complex problems*
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Even if you ignore hallucinations etc, AI is all about information and *not* knowledge.
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The confusion here is between *information* and *knowledge*.
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Top of the market etc
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Where’s @bryce.lol
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It’s just ridiculous
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I think both sides of this are pretty obvious? But. The extreme valuation stuff is unwarranted.
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Do I believe AI is a material game changer for the *information* economy? Yes. Is it anything beyond that in terms of new industrial / knowledge revolution etc? No I do not.
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Its sales
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Do you ever collaborate?
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Yes!!!!
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Have you ever read Ashbery’s Into the Dusk Charged Air? Each line has a different river.
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The idea would be to find out what’s in the particular stone by experimenting with all its different forms.
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Rilke suggesting poetry should be as precise as Rodin’s sculptures
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There is definitely something to write about all of this
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Guys *this* is immersive theatre
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Ten Commandments- writing in stone.
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Chaucer’s stone in House of Fame whose ripples post being dropped in a lake are a metaphor for the transmission of speech.
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You like the stone! Bit disappointed no Cormac stone so far.
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The prompted stone - the stone as *defined* by an algorithmically derived process.* Also the hallucinated stone.
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The stone as an interpretive object - the stone of epistemology.
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The idea and representation of the stone as the result of societal power / force relations - the critical stone.
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The stone as the creation of historical forces (tides, tectonic plates, climate etc etc) - the stone of structuralism.
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The stone and its fragments - the stone of modernism
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The stone of metaphor etc - the referential stone.
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The stone that is painted, drawn, written about - the stone of representation.
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The stone that is observed, measured etc - the empirical stone.
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The stone as an example of creationism (the stone created by god).
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The abstract and perfect idea of the stone (Plato etc).
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Funnily enough that’s what I’m working on
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Omg you’ve been SNOWED IN by the avalanche of truth
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World of Torycraft ™️
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*All* forms of incentive?
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Merci!
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Alright grandpa
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Although that sounds a little old fashioned - eg frequent flyer miles, loyalty cards etc etc.