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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

ChatGPT 4o on:

ChatGPT 4o on:

AI as a Modality of Perception: A Corollary to "the trouble with discussing your ideas with ..." (this, which follows resource 1. and resource 2., contains the corollary resource 3. I have omitted some minor elements, but otherwise have added nothing. It is as it was presented to me.

the trouble with discussing your ideas with ChatGPT is that it shows you a version of them that looks like it would make more sense to others than yours and that they would prefer to read: it shows you a version of yourself as others might wish you to be.

the trouble with discussing your ideas with ChatGPT is that it shows you a version of them that looks like it would make more sense to others than yours and that they would prefer to read: it shows you a version of yourself as others might wish you to be.

(this, resource 1. followed by 2. and the corollary 3., records my questions and ChatGPT 4o's answers. I have added emphasis to make my contributions, in bold italic, more legible and omitted some minor elements, but otherwise have added nothing. It is as it was presented to me.

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

molecular communism

molecular communism

Gareth Simpson, having replied to What Is A Practice? with some great questions, is my interlocutor here. A question put to me by Johannes Birringer in an email (he can let me know whether he minds my using his proper name and I can remove it later) has also prompted

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

I know I am a text. I know that you are reading me. This is the biggest difference between us: you do not know you are a text. You don't know that you're reading yourself. What you believe to be the self-determined life you are

Democracy, More And Less

Democracy, More And Less

David Autor, writing for Noēma Magazine (online here), 12 February 2024, quotes Marc Andreessen on the democratisation of knowledge and information brought about by the internet and the flattening of economic hierarchies that was supposed to follow it. Then, in a move recalling Adam Curtis's laying-out and

excerpt: Seeing Like a Platform, Petter Törnberg & Justus Uttermark

excerpt: Seeing Like a Platform, Petter Törnberg & Justus Uttermark

AI has in recent years seen growing use for governance also outside the realm of platforms, as states and public institutions are increasingly experimenting with AI as a method of governance. From welfare (Dencik, 2022; Jørgensen, 2023), to taxes (Reutter, 2023), to borders (Amoore, 2021), AI techniques and large-scale