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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
The Long Timeline of Language
Before the invention of writing, any conversation is inherently ephemeral. There's always going to be a link back to that contextual moment. And it's very unclear how like how this works with a language model who has no fixed sense of self, no context, no social world, no friends. It's so obvious that that's what writing is about that we kind of forget.
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