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That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man

The Meaning Code

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The Mechanistic Axis of Love

The idea that we can even do these things at all is based on the assumption of a of a mechanistic axiom and it is exactly that it's an axiom like as the foundation of being able to do it at all. The large language models are not mechanistic in the way that you're thinking of something being mechanistic they're more likesomething that can then it's a quantitative randomizer how is that not mechanistic? It's more like absorbing the spirit of all of humanity is what it's doing because it has out there everything that's been written and and thought and sung and poems and books and all of that kind of stuff of all of us which is our past thinking

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