How Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Pioneered a New Way of Creating
Katherine Hollander on Intellectual, Political and Artistic Collaboration Among the Exiled Mitarbeiter
How Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Pioneered a New Way of Creating
Katherine Hollander on Intellectual, Political and Artistic Collaboration Among the Exiled Mitarbeiter
@urlyman I agree with Hank. An LLM is never going to be halfway through writing something and realize there's another angle to it that's never been explored, for example. It's never going to be able to tell a story from an unusual viewpoint or a historical perspective. It's never going to be able to interpret events in terms of emotions or any other aspect of human psychology. It's never going to capture human experience in a few words.
LLMs don't seem to even know that they're repeating the same information, or that they've changed a person's gender, so how can we expect subtely or nuance from them? The best they can do is make a chopped fruit salad out of pickings of text they've lifted from the internet.
And when they're making fruit salad out of their own fruit salad ... what then?
…as Hank Green asserts, language is our most precious technology.
My strong view is that if we delegate it to machines to feed to machines without oversight, we’re fucked.
So let’s not do that.
If we delegate it to machines to be reappraised by humans *before* relaying on to other humans, and we have clear visibility of the consequences, that can be less bad
@urlyman I agree with Hank. An LLM is never going to be halfway through writing something and realize there's another angle to it that's never been explored, for example. It's never going to be able to tell a story from an unusual viewpoint or a historical perspective. It's never going to be able to interpret events in terms of emotions or any other aspect of human psychology. It's never going to capture human experience in a few words.
LLMs don't seem to even know that they're repeating the same information, or that they've changed a person's gender, so how can we expect subtely or nuance from them? The best they can do is make a chopped fruit salad out of pickings of text they've lifted from the internet.
And when they're making fruit salad out of their own fruit salad ... what then?
Monk and Robot: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers #books #literature #dedication
Monk and Robot: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers #books #literature #dedication
Black History Month: What is it and why is it important?
Black History Month is an opportunity to understand Black histories.
By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives)
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/02/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/
Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History by Various edited by David Widger is available online:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975
Black History Month: What is it and why is it important?
Black History Month is an opportunity to understand Black histories.
By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives)
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/02/black-history-month-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-need-it/
Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History by Various edited by David Widger is available online:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975
i'm considering using nonhumans, more specifically red foxes, as point-of-view-characters in my next writing venture. if you know good nonfiction books or other reliable sources about these animals, pls recommend them to me! i'm of course gonna take artistic liberties but would at least like to know where i'm deviating from the facts #biology #wildlife #literature
oon nyt alkanut tosissani suunnittelee että käyttäisin ei-ihmisiä, tarkemmin sanottuna kettuja, näkökulmahenkilöinä seuraavassa kaunokirjallisessa projektissani. jos joku tietää hyviä tietokirjoja / muita luotettavia lähteitä kettujen elämästä niin kertokaa pls! joitain vapauksia aion tietty ottaa mutta haluaisin ainakin tietää, missä kohtaa asiat perustuu faktaan missä ei #kirjaMastodon
i'm considering using nonhumans, more specifically red foxes, as point-of-view-characters in my next writing venture. if you know good nonfiction books or other reliable sources about these animals, pls recommend them to me! i'm of course gonna take artistic liberties but would at least like to know where i'm deviating from the facts #biology #wildlife #literature
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Medieval monks reused an animal skin parchment and in the process removed the writing. However, not all the writing was removed and it has been identified that the writing was a map of the stars written by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus. Now x-rays from a particle accelerator are trying to recover the lost text. The original text dating to about 129 BCE is the earliest known map of the stars. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-catalog-now-a-particle-accelerator-is-revealing-the-long-lost-original-text-180988123/
"The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and color our cultural understanding of typists’ labor.
[...]
“It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.” And many women did [.]"
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
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Celebrating Black History Month
February marks Black History Month, a month-long observance in the United States and Canada that recognizes the significant contributions of Black Americans to history, as well as the historical legacies of the African diaspora.
By The Editors
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/
Black history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history
#literature #books #astronomy #science #technology
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