erdumwandler.bsky.social
Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on https://dettelblog.wordpress.com/.
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This is one I feel like I should know, but the only thing coming to mind right now is Bob Brain’s anthology of primary sources, Going to the Fair.
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Thanks so much for your gracious help. It is not well known to me, and my reply was the first. I will now literally look at the replies that followed. Liked the quotation and was hoping to read the source.
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Where is this alleged?
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Who will be first to FOIA the contract? I wanna see.
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Wait, in what sense can't people be edited or copied? Specifying "legal personhood" would seem to highlight the dependence of personhood on system, ritual, mechanism, artifice, and therefore our copiability. One of my favorite works of literary criticism is Hugh Kenner's The Counterfeiters...
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Yep. "Artificial Intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. We always have been cyborgs and hybrids, always will be.
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Fair point, but if you're going to rhyme "broke" with "OK", you're giving yourself pretty wide latitude...
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If this adds reasons/ differentiae to an ID, then I'm in. On the other hand, if these reasons/ differentiae are specious (specious species), enshittified LLM BS--if it's a bad tool--then I'm out. 2/2
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Still not sure how I feel about this Google grant. My queasiness about iNaturalist (shared by some biologists) comes from its use as an identification engine. The ease and frictionlessness of knowledge that characterizes the www. The elision of method and history. 1/2
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Come on, won’t dish the dirt with the rest of the girls? That’s why.
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Convivium Musicum (www.convivium.org) will be performing this on Saturday at Old West Church in Boston as part of the Boston Early Music Festival: youtu.be/J9O16oA8d-I?...
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youtu.be/9Gt3QY2Aa2I?...
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looks interesting. Is the epidemiological metaphor ("lab escape"--which I like, and am therefore suspicious of--yours or the book's?
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I would. The alignment of undergraduate majors with workforce categories and needs continues apace, even at our oldest liberal arts institutions--the business major being one of the oldest manifestations. www.wbjournal.com/article/clar...
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It looks like ~60% of "business majors" end up in sales or business operations or management jobs? ls.gov/ooh/field-of-degree/business/business-field-of-degree.htm
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Would love to see that curriculum, which would range from theology and political economy to literature, mathematics and physics. Oh, wait, I invented the liberal arts degree.
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Kubik Books.
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It really is, as are the 56 hand-colored botanical engravings by Turpin, accompanying the essay. Turpin is fascinating. Army medic botanical artist with philosophical pretensions. Drawing is Knowing. Goethe wanted him to illustrate the Metamorphosis of Plants.
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I can’t believe I sat my kids in front of this.
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And then there's some of the old Henson/ Muppets stuff. Labyrinth, obv, but also Tant Aminella from the Frog Prince. In general, puppets are horrifying (spukhaft, as Karl Rosenkranz described so vividly in his 1853 Aesthetics of the Ugly). Stuff of (disturbing) dreams.
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In the early 2000s, I showed my kids The Last Unicorn (1982), which I had never seen--not sure how it ended up on our VCR--and it traumatized all of us. Extra-trippy Rankin-Bass. Couldn't stop dreaming about the Red Bull.
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Authors get angry when they find out they don't exist and that THEY are Frankenstein's monsters, creatures of the language machine. As you have written elsewhere, LLMs are the empirical triumph of theory. Karl Rosenkranz (1853) wrote about this as a species of repulsion rather than anger.
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Yeesh, fly safe! and I look forward to hearing about the workshop.
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Thank you, #NEH, for supporting the Perseus online library. www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...
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Once every three for me. Lucky.
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Tell me this isn't Big Vivvy Van Klimpton from Sandy Passage.
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Cameless youtu.be/N0Bp5odIZjQ?...
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Superb, thanks. Look forward to reading.
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Source of the text?
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Sorry if that was unclear. I meant your first clause: he explicitly (if overbroadly) distinguishes personhood from mechanical imitations: "Let me be clear: when I say the math can “do” us, I mean only that—not that these systems are us."
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And read Hugh Kenner's The Counterfeiters!
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He explicitly says this very thing in the essay. Read all the way to the end. It is about the distance between scholarship and life, knowledge and experience, simulacra and authenticity.