Very interesting story, thank you, especially the LLM fallacy, you see it all over Substack of course. But there's no like button, I can see two likes there, but I can't add one. Never seen this before.
It may be some problem with my browser, it’s always my fault.
Rudolf Steiner predicted this over 100 years ago, the LLM fallacy, that technology would trap everyone in their own self-reinforcing information bubble, powered by confirmation bias. This is through the wiles of a particular intelligence known as Ahriman, the “father of lies” in the Bible, who insinuates himself within the mechanisms of language:
…by means of these stupendous magic arts he would be able to make great numbers of human beings into seers — but in such a way that the clairvoyance of each individual would be strictly differentiated. What one person would see, a second and a third would not see. Confusion would prevail and in spite of being made receptive to clairvoyant wisdom, men would inevitably fall into strife on account of the sheer diversity of their visions. Ultimately, however, they would all be satisfied with their own particular vision, for each of them would be able to see into the spiritual world. In this way all culture on the earth would fall prey to Ahriman.
Very interesting story, thank you, especially the LLM fallacy, you see it all over Substack of course. But there's no like button, I can see two likes there, but I can't add one. Never seen this before.
No problem! Glad you enjoyed this.
Yeah... the LLM fallacy is quite common, I didn't think to talk about it, now there's new research to prove the case.
There's a like, a share, and a subscribe button!
It may be some problem with my browser, it’s always my fault.
Rudolf Steiner predicted this over 100 years ago, the LLM fallacy, that technology would trap everyone in their own self-reinforcing information bubble, powered by confirmation bias. This is through the wiles of a particular intelligence known as Ahriman, the “father of lies” in the Bible, who insinuates himself within the mechanisms of language:
…by means of these stupendous magic arts he would be able to make great numbers of human beings into seers — but in such a way that the clairvoyance of each individual would be strictly differentiated. What one person would see, a second and a third would not see. Confusion would prevail and in spite of being made receptive to clairvoyant wisdom, men would inevitably fall into strife on account of the sheer diversity of their visions. Ultimately, however, they would all be satisfied with their own particular vision, for each of them would be able to see into the spiritual world. In this way all culture on the earth would fall prey to Ahriman.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/19191115p02.html
You can say what you like, that’s a pretty good description of Substack.