Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂


He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.


This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.



He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech


via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine


#LLM #AI #GPT





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Every time I read crazy #LLM shit like 0, it reminds me of the #LenieClark madness in #PeterWatts#Rifters trilogy.
My mind keeps going, Damn! He called it close to two decades ago!


A running series of Peter’s thoughts on this shit is here - 1



#Books #Reading #AI




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