Yep. If we take the analogy between externalized memory and externalized
attention seriously, it seems clear we've been doing this for ... what? ...
decades already. Each algorithm [1] makes choices for us [2]. The value systems
behind GOFAI seem quaint these days. But it's the same stuff. Each time I `git
commit`, I select/filter/canalize what I'll do the next time I land near that
region of the landscape ... I guess it's part of the reason I hate working in
the REPL. But particularly with Claude (and maybe Kimi K2), I have something
like a meta-REPL where I can zoom out a bit ... see the coarser canal structure
laid over the finer ones, up and down the granularity scale.
But it'll never replace my Socratic homunculous' need to feel the sand in her
toes ... conversational mixed martial arts, that subtle change in someone's
facial muscles when you tell a joke at layer 3 that's a non sequitur at layers
0-2. [sigh]
[1] ... writ large from diagnostic flowcharts in old textbooks to artifacts like
computational proofs to capitalist exploitation like the youtube "algorithm" ...
[2] Also writ large, where "us" includes corporations and nations as well as
individuals and families.
On 8/13/25 10:35 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
```
"Socrates, he who does not write"
—Nietzche
```
—Derrida
of Grammatology
On 8/13/25 7:22 AM, glen wrote:
Attention Machines and Future Politics
https://jacmullen.substack.com/p/attention-machines-and-future-politics
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