Bigger takeaway: only 1.5 billion speak English, the only language having fun right now. We are just getting started

Um, humanities students and just anyone who loves to read could have, and probably has, told you this already.

I suggest you speak to anyone who has read a book before making statements like this.

Unfortunately 200,000 years of human abundance & equanimity happened before written history Our data is embedded with the assumption of scarcity, and that competition & hoarding are optimal We’re training our AIs with fear, competition and greed God help us if it’s aligned

Code is text. Mathematics is text. DNA is text.

Please say more!

Agree that LMs have been surprisingly good, but it is a bit of a stretch to say this. We're making pictures and sounds in our head when we read words. So the "description of the human experience" is not in the words, but in the pics/sounds in our minds.

Okay then why do we have emojis

Definitely, and it is surprising. Makes me wonder exactly how much advanced human cognition is linked to language—I know there has been debate about it over time

again.... I come back to the philosophy of language and Wittgenstein which so captured me when I was young. the limits of language are the limits of the world. Never did I think this could be experimentally proven -- but now I think it can and will.