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Pushing the multi-mega-ton jumbo jet of human thought-style backwards a few inches, back in the direction of dream logic, might be the Internet's greatest accomplishment. The best is yet to be.
Time to Start Taking the Internet Seriously
edge.org
To construct the chatbot that users interface with, the LLM is embedded in a turn-taking system that alternates between LLM-generated text (chatbot turns) and user-supplied text (user turns). On every chatbot turn, the LLM is presented with the entire conversation history and other contextualising information such as commercial and user-entered system prompts [43,71](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/jmBC+LZbg) .
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical – in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with farming and with the land, then the eaters are suffering a kind of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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