
229: Thought Experiments
Classical Stuff You Should Know
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The Importance of Language Models in Grief
Graham: If we get like enough examples of people's language that it can actually like imitate language, we could just like have conversations with our like dead relatives. Graham: Why? Because they're not the real relative. They're the second ship at Thesisus. You never go to a medium? You can do that now, man. Be like, oh man, I really miss grandma and you fire up your phone. It's like, I love you, honey. Have you ever seen the Black Mirror episode? Probably. He also draws these distinctions between form and matter so that you can more clearly explain concepts.
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