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The mothers of Squid Game
TL;DR: assuming Squid Game is a commentary on capitalism, it also says that in capitalism mothers are expected to be passive non-entities and only exist to support (emotionally, financially, physically) their children. Disclaimer: there are some posts on Reddit about this topic–this was written without reading any. Dying Alone Think about it: after lying to…
Stochastic Parrots
This article receives periodic updates as the discussion around Stochastic Parrots evolves. At least for the immediate future, humans create technology. But what is it that we choose to create? The authors of the Stochastic Parrots paper asked this question about large language models and discovered some interesting answers. Their conclusions were enough to get…
A welcome to 2021
This year, I plan to spend this diary considering the meaning of liberty. It is a word that has become a litmus test for an individual’s political beliefs, moral beliefs, ethical beliefs, and cosmic beliefs, whether used in face to face discussion or in endless argument comment threads with strangers on the internet. It’s in…
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