Currently reading a book by Krajewski about the history of index cards. LLMs seem to be related to the boxes and the way texts were produced by positioning ideas within the constellation of crossreferenced associative memories. As a game of references, hermeneutic labour of prompting and reframing results is not as passive as it seems. What is advertised as intelligence is the result of user-collective archival coupling.
Currently reading a book by Krajewski about the history of index cards. LLMs seem to be related to the boxes and the way texts were produced by positioning ideas within the constellation of crossreferenced associative memories. As a game of references, hermeneutic labour of prompting and reframing results is not as passive as it seems. What is advertised as intelligence is the result of user-collective archival coupling.