Does anyone have a sacred VCR?
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
none of us could ever even aspire to post on this level
hi from Edinburgh!
The Scots are in Boston for the World Cup and have bestowed the highest honor given by the Scottish people: putting traffic cones on their statues
I actually had a conversation with the keynote speaker afterwards, and told him what a shame it was that he allowed an LLM to make him believe in his own worthlessness. I tried to reason with him: "That's exactly what these companies want you to believe, and it's ridiculous." He was unmoved..
Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!
