“ #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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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