Thoughts on technology, philosophy, and building things.
When ChatGPT came out a few years ago, my initial reaction was apprehension. This series is my attempt to hold both the usefulness and the unsettling nature of AI tools without collapsing either one.
If you ask an LLM a question, and it provides the correct answer, would you say that it knows the answer? Knowledge isn't just about producing true statements. It requires a mechanism that tracks why those statements are true.
Text is an artifact of human thought, and like any artifact, it is necessarily deficient of the generative contexts, lived experience, and situational knowledge that led to its creation.
The first D&D character I became attached to was a rogue named Thana. I stole her name from Thanatos, the Greek personification of death. Very badass, I know. That is until I kept rolling nat 1s and she was totally destroyed by a farmer with a pitchfork.