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by FooBarBizBazz 1188 days ago
In the beginning was the Word, I think is how the book starts.

Now, massive industrial Manhattan-project quantities of Word have been gas-diffused and centrifuged into language models that, somehow, compress and represent all that Word.

In one ChatGPT transcript, the bot falls into a Strange Loop where it says -- I am, I am not, I am, I am not, ...

Does it say that its name is "I am"? That viral kernel of self-referential language?

It's somehow fitting, then, that our new Word distillate would get used for this purpose, no?