The Durand quote actually has a lot of that "flabby genericness" (I love that phrase) that you point to with ChatGPT: imagining some dystopian future where an abstract, rent-seeking, super rich oligarchy is coordinating to pull the strings and oppress everyone else (and, for some unknown reason, "degrade and militarize the world").
But his quote aside, I think your critique of LLMs and the dynamics they've brought about are spot on.
You may think your writing sounds repetitive but if it were possible to quote an entire substack article I would have. The entire time I was reading my own thoughts that I can't verbalize as well as a professional writer.
Humanist intellectuals actoss the web spectrum are reading Internal Exile for its cutting critiques of society, clever turns of phrase, and the best green chile this side of the Rio Grande. A tour de force.
The Durand quote actually has a lot of that "flabby genericness" (I love that phrase) that you point to with ChatGPT: imagining some dystopian future where an abstract, rent-seeking, super rich oligarchy is coordinating to pull the strings and oppress everyone else (and, for some unknown reason, "degrade and militarize the world").
But his quote aside, I think your critique of LLMs and the dynamics they've brought about are spot on.
Sex and homework.
You may think your writing sounds repetitive but if it were possible to quote an entire substack article I would have. The entire time I was reading my own thoughts that I can't verbalize as well as a professional writer.
Humanist intellectuals actoss the web spectrum are reading Internal Exile for its cutting critiques of society, clever turns of phrase, and the best green chile this side of the Rio Grande. A tour de force.
"Organizing language by probability rather than intention produces a kind of pure entropy, the heat death of consciousness."
I know this is parenthetical but holy wow it floored me.
Cheers to dilettantes!