OH AND: What was Owen's question.
Owen> Moltbook is fascinating, but what is it's purpose? Fear we'll be
swarmed? Silly to the max? ...?
The fact that Owen responded to my prompt on-list is a sign-of-life I've
not had from him in many years on-list. I had thought he had
unsubscribed when WedTech formed?
This implies he has been a "listener" here all along? I think we
usually call such "lurkers", though if "listeners" are at a premium, we
should de-stigmatize "Lurkers"?
Brunner's Shockwave Rider, "Hearing Aid" or "ten-nines" 999-999-9999 ?
/Precipice turns out to be a Utopian community of a few thousand
people. The nearest comparison would be an agrarian,cottage industry
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_industry>community designed
byWilliam Morris <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris>.
Precipice is also the home of *_Hearing Aid, an anonymous telephone
confession service accessible to anyone in the country. Hearing Aid
is also known as the "Ten Nines", after the phone number used to
call it: 999-999-9999_.* People call the service, a human operator
answers, and they simply talk while the operator listens. Some rant,
others seek sympathy, still others commit suicide while on the
phone. Hearing Aid's promise is that nobody else, not even the
government, will hear the call. The only response Hearing Aid gives
to a caller is "Only I heard that, I hope it helped."/
/-/excerpt from Wikipedia article
nod to DaveW
Re: our love-hate with LLMs (and other AI/deep-learning/diffusion) if
they are acutely a-semantic, then they are NOT listeners though they
appear/pretend (stochastic parrot-like) to be? If a long string of
signifiers falls onto the LLM, but no-one is there to listen, did it
make any meaning?
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