PhD candidate in Sociology, University of British Columbia | Social movements, political sociology, computational social science | I remember. My color's green.
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Tom Einhorn
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New essay with @lauraknelson.bsky.social on AI and cultural sociology. Revisiting what made word embeddings so useful for cultural sociology, we argue that contemporary LLMs risk collapsing perspectival differences and discuss provisional solutions that might help recover cultural variation.
My favorite thing is discovering a new podcast, binging the entire back catalog in a few days, and then never listening to it again.
Tom Einhorn
That #hucklerobby scene on #thepitt tonight was for the fans.
Tom Einhorn
Tom Einhorn
1. Static word embeddings might model culture. But they're fixed. Boo.
2. Dynamic embeddings are contextual!
3. But encoding is computationally expensive. Boo.
4. Decoder only models are efficient!
5. But they seem to collapse all perspectives. Boo.
What, then, ought the sociology of culture do? 👇
