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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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LLMs are the endgame of the E Unibas Pluram thesis of David Foster Wallace
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DFW: Language has become a set of reflexive funhouse mirrors that TV does better than novels and people are trapped in their own reflections as seen on TV Me: LLMs are the extreme end of that process TV: You live in reality, as seen on TV LLMs: Hold my beer
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'tellme' is a shell script I wrote to access a corporate LLM model from the command line. I asked it what DFW would write about LLMs and to write the response in the way DFW would. Some would call this art.
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