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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Power of Reading More Than Writing

There's something about the power of language to summon my experience in your experience that causes a kind of, I'm not sure if I can articulate it well. And yet there's a way in which they kind of weirdly meet, which is that if you write a poem that is like, incisively specific enough, it can become universal. Well, and especially in that example, it's so tied to smell and taste, which are things that don't seem like they're on the near horizon. Yeah. We can get into like language models as assistants to humans and human language model collaboration.

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