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Becoming a Hobbit at Heart.

Circling back to LLMs & AGI:
A priori arguments don't interest me, pro or con. I see two processes at work that need to be kept distinct: 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐚 (attribution of meaning, or "seeing faces") & 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, where groundhog & wombat that started differently end up in the same place. Not helpful: using one name for both...

Here We All Are.

"Poem: Change

So much coin jangling in my pocket.
I need to find a well and wish.
I need to put two coins over my eyes and go on that boat trip.
I need to cut the corners straight.
I need to stop cutting corners.
It's only Tuesday!
It'll pass.
It's only the end of an era.
They knew it couldn’t last that’s why
it was so important to pretend it would.
They said 'now is the time of monsters',
they’re saying it again now.
The mind reels because my feet haven’t moved.
I’m only a quadruped in a machine that could kill me.
I can only take flight in a machine that could kill me.
All the machines are insured and none of them ‘fight fascism’.
But on the way I saw something four legged with a soft gait,
which reminded me,
I’ve seen animals in traps before.
When their legs can’t move
they use their teeth.
I was also built
to get to one place
from another. "

—Ayesha Siddiqi on Substack

Evening Peace. (via @henryghenrik.bsky.social)