muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream
muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream

The board revolt at OpenAI reminds me of my favorite idea from Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
The idea of the imagined intersubjective order. Companies are concepts of our collective imaginations. We call them legal entities and assign liability to them. They can be a vehicle for capturing value created by humans. They receive tax assessments. They can even be sued — absolving the people in charge of direct responsibility.
Yet, a company can be dissolved and reincarnated elsewhere by having the employees simply say they resigned and have moved to a new company. And that's how we keep lawyers employed. Tricks of our own cognition.
Parallels between the how we think and how we get llms to mimic thinking


"Let no damned Tory index my History!” He knew that whoever controls the index controls how readers enter a work.”