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Resist Summary
LLMs lack the ability to understand a question or experience from different points of view, though they can, if prompted, generate a simulacrum of differential perspectives. Here’s Breen:
The issue is that generative AI systems don’t want messy perspective jumps. They want the median, the average, the most widely-approved of viewpoint on an issue, a... See more
OpenAI's NextGenAI press release is horse of a different color
The thing about being a radical centrist is that you get into twice as many fights as everyone else.
I argue with creatives who insist that AIs are just plagiarism machines. They're not. It's true that these tools enable humans to plagiarize more easily—yes, that's a legitimate concern. But the AIs themselves don't memorize copyrighted works like s... See more
I argue with creatives who insist that AIs are just plagiarism machines. They're not. It's true that these tools enable humans to plagiarize more easily—yes, that's a legitimate concern. But the AIs themselves don't memorize copyrighted works like s... See more
You’re an Ignorant Fool—The Law of Tragic Nuance
Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what's left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren't yours. Their filters aren't yours. When you operate on summaries, you're thinking with someone else's brain.
... See moreMost of what we read is a summary. The news is summary, many online writers aim to summarize studies or other things they’ve read, the most popular nonfiction works tend to be summaries. In the case of history books, sometimes they are summaries of older summaries.
I worry we read too much summary. About news especially I think of Goethe: “If one ha