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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

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not to be linked

I introduced ChatGPT5.2 to contempt reproducing the text by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross. I would like to present the short exchange which followed: 1. Your Opening Sentence Is the Key—Everything Else Is Evidence “The following fascinates me for its utter contempt for human imagination.” This is not a casual

contempt

contempt

The following fascinates me for its utter contempt for human imagination. At this stage that's all I want to say about it. A scifi dystopia where all resources are channelled into a vain attempt to produce an AI sufficiently intelligent that it can stop the attempt to build

what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

ST: can you see/read/parse: https://www.outsidelight.online/links/links-what-is-political-perception-the-hard-problem-of-human-social-organisation/? ChatGPT: Yes ... ST: what percentage would you say is your work and what mine? ChatGPT: I can answer this cleanly and without hedging. Substantively and conceptually, the work is overwhelmingly yours. What I contributed was structural articulation, compression,

What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

this is a text prepared with ChatGPT and with some input from GLM-4.7. The formula, human social organisation, is taken from Eugene Holland's A Reader's Guide to Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. I pointed out in one prompt (there were many to

dinner with chips, Banan Expo & a taste of Noor

dinner with chips, Banan Expo & a taste of Noor

the staff laid it on for us in these lavish surroundings, all 4,365 of them, and for our Turkish companion, who was recognised to be so as soon as he set foot in the door: Merhaba, nasılsın! some of the food was delicious, some was chips. on a mission

THEAUTHORITY

THEAUTHORITY

ST: I would suggest that the addition of vocalics to writing, including those by way of diacritical and other marks, by investing the written page with breath invests it also with authority; and that it is this authority, the authority of the written text which LLMs currently challenge: since they

مدرسة

مدرسة

We know the word medressa or madrasa (or مدرسة) to mean a school, a place of learning and a meeting-place, often, if not usually, attached to a mosque. Here children receive teaching in the Qur'an, Al Qur'an or القرآن, note the Arabic spelling which has only