The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like fount of creativity; we are always to some degree recyclers and samplers and, at our best, participants in something larger than ourselves.

But this should not be taken to show that we become what we are (painters, musicians, speakers) by doing what, for example, LLMs do – ie, merely by getting trained up on large data sets. Humans aren’t trained up. We have experience. We learn.

This is what happens when people try to apply philosophy to science. They get romantic and egotistical. “Oh, humanity, will your wondrous powers of learning ever be duplicated? Not by brutish machines, I daresay. They only do what they are told and learn what is given to them.”

And a modern calculator has more computer power than the Apollo program… This is how tech works.

I really don’t know why people announce these things. They have to know by now that Nintendo will squash anything and everything that uses their IP and/or assets. It’s like taking your first Tae Kwon Do lesson and celebrating by telling all your bullies.

I wish this would come to Steam. I’m never going to give you my money for your shit storefront, epic.

Oh. no, I’m not saying that this is something that Trump would say, it just has all the cadence of someone with early onset dementia. It is written like how he speaks, thus “Trump’s Speech Writer” and not Trump himself.

I think I found Trump’s Speech Writer’s account.

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