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I genuinely haven’t yet heard an argument that wasn’t also made about cameras at some point. There were stories of premodern tribe people afraid film recordings would steal their souls when shown the tech for the first time.
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You could do worse than think of prompt engines as complex cameras or even just funhouse mirrors. One line of thought I’ve been noodling on is expanding the digital/analog spectrum into a triangular space: digital, analog, symbolic. AI is to symbols as sampling is to signals.
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More like a tax imposed by weaker computers. The unreasonable effectiveness of data had not kicked in. But the divide is real. Simple illustration is recent results of ML doing arithmetic. It is impressively right in an impressively wrong way.
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