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The piece linked from that last boost is excellent. Still reading. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/ ---- "Chad," I say, my voice calm, the voice of a teacher correcting an unwilling student. "Why did it choose 'stone' for the throat metaphor?" "What? Because it's intelligent. It's smart. It knows. Because it fits." "No," I say. "It chose 'stone' because statistically, in the petabytes of training data scraped without consent from the internet, the word 'stone' appears in proximity to 'lump in throat' with a probability of 0.04 percent, which is higher than 'wet creature.' It isn't a choice. It's a math problem. It is a predictive text algorithm on steroids. It doesn't know what a throat is. It doesn't know what fear feels like. It is predicting the next token based on mediocrity."