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"I Resonate With That" [NAILS ON CHALKBOARD]
In every corner of life, it’s true that the way we interpret someone’s speech corresponds precisely to the amount of power we think they ought to have.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Head words are civilized words, domesticated words, RLHF’d words. The part of me that learned how to generate language like this learned how to do it in school, in order to pass classes. Head words are mostly bullshit. And LLMs are tracer dye for places in society where language production was already mostly bullshit. It was completely predictable ... See more
QC • Core dump
perhaps the internet was “basically alienating and unfulfilling.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
phonetic flair — wondering if there’s a word for when musicians change the pronunciation of words to improve the melody or match rhymes (ie: this girl is on fiyah.”) Pop-stars do it. Punk-stars do it. Music is a natural medium to mutate language.
“Standard” language and “correct” spelling are collective agreements, not eternal truths, and collective agreements can change.