Relationship with Time

language models operate in archival slices — frozen cultural moments recombined as if timeless. Each model release creates a new epoch, already slipping toward obsolescence

“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living,” Odell notes, “and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on