Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture — mentioned by CharlesW

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:32:27 GMT

> The flip side of all this is of course the idea that there is still something emergent, unplanned, and mind-like. For people who have only a surface-level understanding of how they work, yes. A nuance of Clarke's law that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" is that the bar is different for everybody and the depth of their understanding of the technology in question. That bar is so low for our largely technologically-illiterate public that a bothersome percentage of us have started to augment and even replace religious/mystical systems with AI powered…

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Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture — mentioned by CharlesW