Ruthvik Peddawandla
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Ruthvik Peddawandla
Head words are civilized words, domesticated words, RLHF’d words. The part of me that learned how to generate language like this learned how to do it in school, in order to pass classes. Head words are mostly bullshit. And LLMs are tracer dye for places in society where language production was already mostly bullshit. It was completely predictable... See more
QC • Core dump
And if your goal is to unearth entirely new planes of understanding, avoid feedback like it’s the Great Plague of London.
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
Our culture seems to be spiraling into a feedback loop of homogenized thoughts and ideas, where originality is sidelined in favor of the predictable and the algorithmically optimized. In fact, one of those machines wrote the last 28 words, from “our culture seems” on.
Sam Kriss • Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
Actions are teleological events: they aim at desired states of affairs. Yet it has been argued by several philosophers that the creative process cannot be, in a certain sense, teleological. Many introspective reports stress that creative insights sometimes occur unbidden and spontaneously (e.g. Poincare); and anti-teleological accounts appeal to
... See more“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
Why does the autofictional novel still dominate the database novel? One clear answer is that the former has the aura of celebrity, as well as its associated false intimacy. However, as we’ve learned, the latter has its own rhizomatic logic, one that scoffs at false binaries; of fascicular tyranny. It’s clear that the database novel can function... See more
Conor Truax • Against Autofiction: Two Paths for the Internet Novel | Spike Art Magazine
Time for tinkering, following my curiosity, and reading about things that interest me can feel like “wasting” time but these periods tend to lead to interesting opportunities. This is because it's a way of getting in the flow with my nature and optimizing for energy first. This ends up being a great hack for avoiding starting things you’ll want to... See more
Grothendieck knew what he found interesting and productively confusing because he had spent three years observing his thought and tracing where it wanted to go. He was not at the mercy of the social world he entered; rather, he “used” it to “further his aims.” (I put things in quotation marks here because what he’s doing isn’t exactly this... See more