"LLMs serve as flashlights for finding bureaucracy" is a slightly more precise descriptor of what I'm getting at, and what I think @tyrellturing.bsky.social is getting at.

Look of course not *every* task where AI is useful is necessarily bureaucratic. That's why I invoked the flashlight metaphor -- it may shine a light on where bureaucracy exists and could be eliminated.

A task you would rather not do yourself feels pretty bureaucratic to me.

If there is a US equivalent I hope someone points me to it. I will say perhaps controversially I think it's telling that this report came from a think tank rather than academia. We need to move faster to meet the moment.

It's incredible I think. So insightful.

Ooh thanks for the lead!

*that was. Good grammar always, especially when chatting with an English teacher.

I look forward if possible to discussing them with you. What if there was a language was not bounded by time, Chiang asks. A profundity I recur to frequently.

Teaser: It is interesting to contemplate the connection between life and time. Have you seen Arrival or read Ted Chiang's story it's based upon? I recommend both highly.

You've inspired an essay I'm going to write. I am again in gratitude. Hope you don't mind the BlueSky gushing. I'm having a moment.

Have you ever read Milan Kundera's novella Slowness? He makes a simple observation that's always stuck with me, that if we think deeply about something while walking, our pace naturally slows.

"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting."

Could I just like, hang out?

Hahaha well done.

There's a whole field of study around this concept. @celiaheyes.bsky.social has piloted my understanding of it.

Daniel have you written anything about the mechanistic conception of genetic programming as it relates to the concept of intelligence? You had a passing footnote on eugenics but I'm curious if you've gone deeper on that?

As context (and why I devoured your book today)...