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pnictogen-wing
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One of the most blatant clues about how the contemporary high-tech executive culture views creativity is found in one single word: "temperature". If you read puff pieces about the large-language model "AI" stuff that's currently in fashion, you'll find that they equate "temperature" with creativity.

I don't know exactly (yet) how the AI techlords settled upon "temperature" as a parameter for their shit, but the usage suggests an obvious analogy with thermal noise. get everything hotter, moving around faster, more particles bashing into each other, and more stuff comes out! more radiation, over a broader spectrum, except that the AI boys are doing this with words and concepts. (AND with atoms and molecules, because running all this LLM stuff full tilt generates a tremendous amount of heat.) Apparently, "creativity" is equivalent to bashing every concept into every other possible concept, collecting whatever flies out of the collisions, and running popularity contests on the fragments.

Underlying this strange notion of creativity is the assumption (never admitted openly) that really, everything important's already been discovered so now all that's left is to fill in some details and claim the Universe as a prize for having (supposedly) figured it all out. "Innovation" is increasingly a game of running in place, polishing up the same few technological devices that everyone's taught to regard as the summa qua non of all technology: cars, computing devices (desktop and mobile), blockchains, whatever. Everything we need has already been invented, so now the only job left is optimization and value-adding and playing the perpetual game of rearranging the same few pieces into slightly different patterns. It's the Sirius Cybernetics future.

~Chara


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