The Pursuit
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The Pursuit
This matters, because language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.
from Ace by Angela Chen
We hardly notice, because language is water we live in, but words are how we embed meaning, indicate that concepts are juxtaposed or similar or reminiscent, and form our own mental maps of reality. Words are our embeddings, and language is our latent space
from Language Is Our Latent Space by Jon Evans
Keely Adler added
- We, as humans, sometimes receive streams of tokens and produce tokens in response, forming words, sentences, lines of code ... but always with the ability to peek outside the stream and check in with ground-floor reality. We pause and consider: does this word really stand for the thing I intend it to stand for? Does this sentence capture the real e... See more
from Are AI Language Models in Hell?
Alex Dobrenko added