2026-11-04 11:01 UTC
I recently saw a talk where someone cited Karpathy (a screenshot of the original talk is attached below, from YouTube), in which he describes LLMs as "a zip file of the internet" and "a store of world knowledge." I felt nervous. More than concerns about the greed of capitalists in the AI world, this overall idea of reducing and normalizing the diversity and plurality of world knowledge makes me very worried.
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@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-11-04 12:31
@raffaele@digipres.club Such a reductionist view of epistemology, the nature of knowledge itself, is profoundly ignorant: it ignores the concepts of process knowledge and tacit knowledge, how people do the things they do, how they feel about it, movement, orally transferred cultural traditions, etc. It tends to cast the people taking this position or driving it as being a few cards short of a full deck, to be charitable about it.