Systems of Philosophy: On Robert Brandom’s “A Spirit of Trust” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Consequently, what has been offered as a criticism of LLM technology — that these algorithms only circulate different words without access to the real-world embodied referents — might not be the indictment critics think it is. LLMs are structuralist machines — they are practical actualizations of structural linguistic theory, where words have meani... See more

What if the psyche were a thing held in common? That is to say, what if our purchase on reality and the emergence of the self depended on human relationships and communities? From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging.

The Enclosure of the Human Psych... See more

If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of va... See more

But it would be impetuous to conclude that LLMs simply generate bullshit.

Their writings are and can be meaningful. What they mean is something that comes about through the process of our reading them and then interpreting and evaluating them.