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One way to think about it is as bespoke Google searches, with an inbuilt propensity for plausibility in what it creates..so there's the beginnings of an inner world, if we wanna call it that, though none of the items of that world correspond to any implicit insight for the algo.

So it gets how JFK relates to moon landing, but the whole network stands in the air, so to speak, since there's nothing grounding any element. That's also why it comes up with weird answers to many questions because things we take ft granted aren't understandable to it yet.

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Jun 12, 2022Liked by Samuel Arbesman

Enjoyed this a lot 😊 The Star Wars one 👌

The writing of history is a process of selecting — out of every event happening on the world at that moment — the events of historical significance. Subjective, with consensus usually developing over time.

So another interpretation is that GPT-3 is good at mimicking the way humans describe history and include both big and small details. wdyt?

The Rest is History podcast (two historians discuss topics) has a fun episode on alternative histories.

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