Venkatesh Rao@vgr·May 22, 2022False metonymy: when a thing stands in for a larger thing that isn’t actually a thing What examples come to mind based on this abstract definition?29227
Venkatesh Rao@vgrAI is a category not a thing though, and no specific system like gpt has turned into a metonymy10:31 PM · May 22, 2022
Hal Morris@HalMorris3·May 23, 2022Replying to @vgrComing from quite a different direction, but "Intelligence" seems a good candidate for something that doesn't exist. That is to say intelligence or no particular type, as in the blank slate model of human intelligence.