computers feel, not see, we need new primatives [15fe77e2]
- eject the enchantments of technology
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- algeria and prostitution
- [1] J. Surkis, “MAKING THE ‘MUSLIM FAMILY,’” p. 30, 2022.
- Vision is an easier problem than language
- distill.pub and vision networks and information theory makes it feel like we understand it on a larger level
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x.com/SanNuvola/status/1594650926559764481?s=20
- digital image is what makes machine vision possible -> is this true? it's more seq2seq makes machine vision possible no? There's a fetishization of the senses here, where we assume
- attention is all you need -> seq2seq is all you need, functional values is a texture, not a vision. Why does this matter? You feel texture.
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What are ways of building a new primiative?
- eject this type of sense making, approach it as an anthropological problem, which means you have to spend time with the computer
- we are all users of the computer, which makes us feel like we understand it, especially because it's so intatmitely tied to our neoliberal structure and the fact that Bunz: School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments
- however, just like how you have to approach cultures as a producer, not a consumer, you need to understand computers in the same way (aka go become a programmer)
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the soul of a machine is not reflection, bryan cantrill does a good job instilling this ethos.
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we must approach it without our own reservations
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- intractability of NLP
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levered nature of the computer prevents the left from having a good understanding of it
- we can only see it as levels of power, but the unique thing of computers is that we may not be able to admit that the generative power of the computer