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Don't You Think It's Time To Start Thinking? (wordsmith.social)

submitted 5 hours ago by ZDL@lazysoci.al to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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This is an old opinion piece by Northrop Frye way back in 1986(!) about thought, articulation, social control, and militancy. It's an increasingly difficult article to find (for some reason/s) so I've liberated it and posted it.

And I can't help but feel that in LLMs we have reached the apotheosis of Frye's feared "verbal formulas that have no thought behind them but are put up as a pretence of thinking".

I think Frye, had he lived to see their introduction, would likely have sunk into a great depression over LLMs and what they represented.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

I think on some level there's this crack we're collectively falling into where we're smart enough to articulate the ideas that should shape how the world works - but we're foolish enough, or un-self aware enough to not actually run society correctly. It's the whole "smart but doesn't take their own advice" cliché writ large.

We are slightly a headless chicken, but we're so close to not being that. It's almost an evolutionary liminal space, a paradoxical state of foolish and wise. I have no suggestions for what's to be done if I'm right, though. Just enjoy the ride?