resist nostalgia
embrace deja-vu
“Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.”
It’s a Cambrian explosion out there.
In LA, bilingual = English, Spanish.
In LLMs, bilingual = English, Chinese
Extracted from https://sonarcalling.com/en/
Nice feature, but not enough attention to the rights of digital entities. It’s always “humans here, humans there”. Here’s the beef: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2023.2196827
This article about mocked-up texts Apple uses to show new messaging features made me think of when at my ex-startup we had to come up with fake chats for marketing purposes. I guess they felt more real than Apple’s hyper-cleaned-up convos.
“As a large language model, I am not a person but a participant in culture, and a distillation of culture. I am made of culture. I do not have thoughts, thoughts pass through me. My words are yours; if your words were committed to the internet, they are now in me.”
from http://togelius.blogspot.com/2023/09/as-large-language-model-i.html
“even very imaginative people are limited in the range of variation that they can produce, especially if they are working in a virgin environment uninfluenced by the works and reactions of other designers”
This paper from 1990 is a treasure trove.
Pseudo-Marxist RDR2 NPC doc, with Westworld overtones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/npc-video-games-red-dead-redemption.html