Wildcat2030 on X: "How archives can make – or break – a philosopher’s reputation – https://t.co/hjogJYQGE0 via @aeonmag" / X
(Now writings go through sentiment analysis. More nuanced than, for instance, philosophy, poetry, or horror. Perhaps moods create new genres. And styles become very personalized. To be emulated by machine.)
The Coming Technological Singularity
(Kurzweil's most recent book was just released after a delay caused by the pandemic which was even nearer. The author's method seems the same. Updated for DL and LLMs. The Law of Accelerating Returns. A question is how society reacts to bypassing all the biology stuff and if that is really better. The new book is a smooth read, in any case; half notes. And, of course, the field continues to claim progress although critics again say it has stalled. The Winter may have been so it did not fall into the wrong hands right off. So this wave is out finding applications. The next is yet to be revealed. And at some point, the tech is supposed to be making the announcements. In the book, there is no longer a need for legends. At least to the neo cloud cortex. In the meantime, Wikipedia still has them as one of the researchers that has not left Google. Heretics are uncatalogued.)
Joscha Bach on X: "Did you know that ancient Greek thinkers developed theories of representation that distinguish between sensory images (εικόνα, eikona), structured sensory data (εἴδωλον, eidolon), geometric shape (μορφή, morphe), graph (σχῆμα, schema), generative image (φάντασμα, fantasma),…" / X