Notices by Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)

Charlie Kirk supporters in my Facebook feed have been lurking and are now outing themselves, doing us both a favor.

Always block early and often.

#science #capital #Enlightenment

Asking #questions is a form of #labor: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/what-problem-does-chatgpt-solve

“to the extent that we are invited to outsource the effort of #sensemaking, our intellectual and #creative abilities will atrophy and our #relationships will suffer.”

“Technologies that relieve frustrating #struggle can make our efforts more productive and can increase our ability to do good work, whereas technologies that eliminate #productive struggle diminish our capacities and prevent us from becoming the kind of people able to exercise our #freedom responsibly and redemptively.”

“Yet it is the countless hours of disciplined, effortful #struggle that make possible the wondrous #freedom, the seemingly effortless performance, of a skilled human body.”

“#Thinking and #writing are among the many realms of human work where the line between #frustrating and #productive struggle remains blurry.”

“#ChatGPT’s offer to generate an argument relieves me of the responsibility for #learning about, synthesizing, and imagining the #truth of a particular issue.”

“Technologies that promise to remove the disciplined struggle by which we develop our #freedom, our capacity to achieve the good, strike at the core of our #humanity.”

“#culture cannot be built around technologically enabled avoidance of effortful #sensemaking.”

“Solviture ambulando, it is solved by #walking, is the only fitting response to some queries, yet no LLM can provide answers of this type.”

#SolvitureAmbulando

“Interacting with #LLMs trains us to expect pre-formed answers from the void rather than endure the #productive effort of #conversation – literally, turning back and forth with another person in pursuit of #truth.”

“#ChatGPT’s success at mimicking human #language is an indictment of the ways we already use words.”

#WordsMeanThings

“As we come to inhabit a world where we can #trust the reality of nothing that we see or read, we will be less able to give our trust to anyone, less able to dialogue constructively and form #friendships with other people.”

“A sentence is … a feelable thought, a thought that impresses its sense not just on our #understanding, but on our hearing, our sense of rhythm and proportion. It is a pattern of felt sense.”

#WendellBerry

“a relatively abstract word such as #truth comes from the word for tree: we articulate a concept meaning “truth” by analogy to our experience of a deeply rooted #tree.”

“#Language is thus a palimpsest of tacit, embodied #sensemaking, and #computer hardware simply cannot mean in the way a human person can.”

“Altman’s attitude isn’t altruistic but sociopathic. It’s not surprising, then, that his #technology also displays sociopathic tendencies.”

“#SocialMedia didn’t democratize speech so much as it degraded our informational #ecosystem; it democratized the need to be vigilant and discerning as we sift through vast quantities of debris in search of reliable #institutions and #information.”

“#LLMs are a #technology suited to a decadent #culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words according to various probabilities than it is to make a living improving the #health of our topsoil, #communities, and souls.”