William Hahn
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749 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Because now we're we're better understanding language than ever before.
By building these machines that instantiate language, uh it gives us this this petri dish, this microscope.
And
I think when when there's a lot of
mystery around how these language models operate.
And I think the real mystery is is in the words, in the language.
We didn't understand what words were.
We didn't really understand what language was.
And we we thought it was this this communication kind of thing.
And I've been thinking about it more um with my c my colleague Dr.
Behrenholtz.
Um it as an as an organism, right?
Something that's alive and that we need to th you know invoke the framework from biology.
Um
It's
to think about it not just as communication, but as a you know, of of referred to it as a parasite in some sense, and not necessarily pejorative, um, refer to it as a divine parasite.
But it's it's something that lives on the brain and but it's but it's not the brain.
And
One of the ways I've been thinking about this is with things like multiple personality syndrome and split personality syndrome.
that
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