Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
LLMs introduce a temporality that is genuinely new: one that forces us to invent new cultural modes of production. How do we write, create, and remember in an environment where our tools are discontinuous archives, replaced every few years? How do we treat cultural memory when it arrives in frozen epochs, each already obsolete the moment it
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culture is non-stationary—it changes, mutates, refuses to hold still. As Emmet puts it, models “actually get dumber over time as you use them,” because they are frozen snapshots of a past cultural moment. What they capture brilliantly is instantly outdated; what they recombine convincingly is subtly decayed.
what’s indulgent is just doing, not documenting
Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.