> be a human in an oral society without writing
> all you hear are phonemes
> you don't care, it's all abstracted away (Sapir 1933)
> you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams: la pensée sauvage (Lévi-Strauss 1962)
> phonemes don't exist.

As Lévi-Strauss once fantasized, logical properties are now perfumes. Best of luck to those attempting to reverse-engineer the subtle art of the blind idiot bricoleur-perfumers in question.

Very nice critique re: "democratization" in AI research from @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social and @zeerak.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2406.11598

So you're telling me all of the billions of weight parameters underlying a seemingly uninterpretable generative model of language and culture can be ternary