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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
The Impossible Exactness of Language
i think it is kind of dangerous this idea that well this includes all of human knowledge as if human knowledge is contained only in explicit texts written in english on the internet yeah exactly. i mean we're operating from a kind of incomprehensibly vast set of implicit assumptions and we start to make things explicit at the point where they might be quote unquote interesting which might be the very point in which they become like weird non-representative of the stuff that we care about in life, he says. In right this you cannot like capture this in perfect algorithms because at the end of the day it is all culturally contextual and you can't actually separate out from those things.
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