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Holy shit. I did not see this coming. This changes everything. They decoupled semantic intelligence from text generation. This is an AI that is as smart as Fable, but which is structurally incapable of threatening the liberal arts.

that seems not true? it's certainly capable of 'threatening' the liberal arts (just to mirror that language). super cool tho.

I was imprecise, this is better

But the point is still strong: we can build systems on this that are no “threat” in the sense I mean, in a way that we have heretofore struggled to do with LLMs for various reasons.

I feel like it is strange to think of liberal arts in terms of culture-production lol, we're not talking about fine arts here.

The liberal arts are how we produce meaning, which is upstream of culture. 😁

yes. it's also how we produce business decisions financial decisions policy decisions engineering decisions etc I'm not sure how a decision engine doesn't affect this

It does affect those. I don’t care about protecting those. I care about protecting meaning-generation.

meaning is a series of decisions

In a very technical sense, yes, but not phenomenally. :3

...yes, it is