The app for independent voices

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Henry Farrell
Nov 25
Programmable Mutter

this is the piece Rob is talking about - written nearly a year ago, but I think it holds up well. programmablemutter.com/…

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Rob Nelson
Nov 8

This understanding of the social value of LLMs—as NLP interfaces—gets lost in all the arguing about intelligence.

Thanks to finding the term in Leif Weatherby’s “Language Machines,” I now refer to attempts to commoditize NLP as “language as a service” and note that the giant tech companies seem to be adopting new naming conventions for t…

Historically, general‑purpose communication breakthroughs—most obviously human speech and then literacy—reshaped production, coordination, and discovery by lowering the cost of translating intent into action. Natural‑language access to data is a similar general‑purpose capability.
Brad DeLong
Nov 25
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