PREORDER The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Ian Bogost
Loading...
Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.
Against the Quantification of Integrity
When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language.
💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a...
The MacBook Air is a lot lighter than the MacBook Pro, so I want to use it as an actual laptop, out in the world. (The Pro mostly seems sits on the desk.) But the lower glare, "nano-texture" screen, which would be great using in for that world away from the desk, is only available on the Pro.
"This is hardly Armageddon for higher education. But the future does kind of suck."
Lovely piece. But I found myself looking up at the clouds that have been looming above the situation for years: The mounting irrelevance of literary fiction; that reading has been "self-conscious, hyperaware, restless, and anxiety-driven" for years; the outmoding of style by journalistic facticity…
My new book The Small Stuff is out July 7. Look how adorable and orange it is!
Please pre-order one? You can do it here: smallstuffbook.com
