Stochastic Parrots & Subturing Minds: THURSDAY INFORMATION SOCIOLOGY

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Reading, arguing, & prompting as different ways of making absent minds speak, from Machiavelli’s study to the fan‑whir of an M5 Max., for it is a fact that black squiggles on the page and linear algebra behind the screen both become voices in our heads—and that has meaning for teaching, ritual, and thought.. To what extent is there danger not just in forgetting that LLMs “only mimic,” but also in not remembering that reading i also an art of mimicry? Cf.: Phaidros <https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1636/1636-h/1636-h.htm>.Over on the social network that is a paradisiacal garden of kittens, puppies, rainbows, unicorns, and flowers, we have:I Am I - Earth: <https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qzszddraggl4m5d2wskzvetl/post/3mndawflufx2o>: ‘A parrot that ends up teaching you Latin has crossed some line the metaphor was meant to deny. Mere mimicry does not transmit a grammar you can then use. So the question is not whether it copies, but what gets carried when the copy is good enough to teach. What is actually transmitted?…ShareThis was a comment on my: <https://braddelong.substack.com/p/stochastic-parrots-on-the-palatine>: Brad DeLong: Stochastic Parrots on the Palatine Hill: Monday MAMLMs: ‘On logs, Latin, and linear algebra: learning from a stochastic parrot; somewhat awkward questions about agency and pedagogy arising from working through one ridiculously knotty sentence of In Catilinam I with an LLM…Give a gift subscriptionMy reply was: That is well said! And it was well said. And it is important. While it may be a stochastic parrot, enmeshed in the spheres of human cognition an…