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Our brains are the mold, language is the cast, and LLMs are the forged object made from the cast.
Notes: Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon
Dwarkesh Patel
But as CEO, you will have the “loudest voice in the room.” Once people hear your perspective, some percentage will naturally alter their own views to more closely match yours. This percentage is much higher than you might imagine. People assume that, as CEO, you have more information than they do, and therefore your perspective is probably more correct. Later, these same people will not feel fully bought into the outcome because internally they will know that their true thought was not actually heard.
The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera
That was a terrible idea. As I’ve written before on this subject, people just aren’t meant to talk to one another this much. They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either.
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Ian Bogost
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