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hello friends i have written my first new s**st*** post in over a year, it's about how i hate language now, come take a look https://t.co/ozkT5naLth https://t.co/3Apm0ZmSKu
@QiaochuYuan You know how when you talk in person you move your body? Mental motions are motor actions because the brains latent space arranges things in motor actions the same way LLMs have an inner ontology matching their action space over words. You've been beaten out of noticing this. https://t.co/ua6lJrnrXy
@QiaochuYuan It's not that you write with your whole body but that you write in the postures you would have taken while speaking if you weren't suppressing yourself. This is part of why improv helps, it teaches you to associate your epistemic postures with motor postures again.
@QiaochuYuan To be specific: It's not that you write while moving but that you *index over the things you say using the postures you would use to speak them if you were moving while writing*. You can only do this if you know how you would move while talking, and school trains that out of you.
@QiaochuYuan In the year before I came to faith in Christ, I had a period of time where whenever I spoke or wrote to anyone, even in casual contexts, I would try to speak in iambic pentameter. It felt futile to speak only in plain English, since what is meaning, anyway? What means anything?
@QiaochuYuan The Christian view, or at least my personal view as one of many Christians, is that all human constructs are ultimately imperfect vessels for something strictly beyond us. There is proximate truth that must be true by its terms, but the highest truth cannot be grasped by words.