{"id":2067,"date":"2023-12-25T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2023-12-25T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:04:05","slug":"ebeneezers-yuletide-homily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2023\/12\/25\/ebeneezers-yuletide-homily\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebeneezer\u2019s Yuletide Homily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2yd18z6iSyk\">This interview<\/a><\/strong> <strong> <\/strong>just reiterated how everyone is still gob-smacked at how much transformers turn out to be able to do by swallowing and chewing more and more of the Internet with more and more computers, by filling in all the local bigram blanks, globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re right to be gob-smacked and non-plussed, because nobody expected it, and nobody has come close to explaining it. So, what do they do instead? Float a sci-fi icon \u2013 <strong>AY! GEE! EYE! <\/strong>\u2013 with no empirical substance or explanatory content, just: \u201c<em>It\u2019s Coming!<\/em>\u201d\u2026 plus a lot of paranoia about what \u201cthey\u2019re\u201d not telling us, and who\u2019s going to get super-rich out of it all, and whether it\u2019s going to destroy us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And meanwhile Planetary Melt-Down (<strong>PMD<\/strong>) proceeds apace, safely muzzled by collective cog-diss, aided and abetted by those other three Anthropocene favorites: Greed, Malice and Bellicosity (<strong>GMB<\/strong>) &#8212; a species armed to the hilt, with both weapons and words, and words as weapons (<strong>WWWW<\/strong>)..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanna know what I think\u2019s really going on? Language itself has gone rogue, big-time. It\u2019s <strong>A<\/strong>dvanced alright; and\u00a0<strong>G<\/strong>eneral; but it\u2019s anything but\u00a0<strong>I<\/strong>ntelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/253346\/\">in our hands, and mouths<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it started 299,999 B.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2023\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2068\" width=\"281\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2023\/12\/image.png 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2023\/12\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2023\/12\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2023\/12\/image-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview just reiterated how everyone is still gob-smacked at how much transformers turn out to be able to do by swallowing and chewing more and more of the Internet with more and more computers, by filling in all the local bigram blanks, globally. They\u2019re right to be gob-smacked and non-plussed, because nobody expected it, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2023\/12\/25\/ebeneezers-yuletide-homily\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ebeneezer\u2019s Yuletide Homily&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,98,111,2,106,164],"tags":[167,151,169,168],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatgpt","category-cognitive-dissonance","category-computation","category-ethics","category-language","category-llms","tag-agi","tag-gpt","tag-llm","tag-www"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}