An author writes essays on thinking, language, culture, and cognitive science, including framings, mental models, and aphantasia.
Commenters find the topics interesting and cite its culture and framings essay, but one says many posts read like undeclared LLM output.
Interesting topic but a lot of the articles on this blog reads like undeclared LLM slop:
> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought. Most of what you remember is nothing like an approximate copy of the things you experienced in real life—even in the specific case of text, memory is not even remotely like a paraphrase of previously read words. Many of our thoughts happen in a highly abstracted and distilled form, interacting and connecting with each other as a network that simply cannot be faithfully converted into a sequence of words, however long. The fact that people can fail even at something as basic as sketching a kanji or a vehicle they've seen hundreds of times before is just another example of the same phenomenon.
A pet peeve of mine is when someone uses their personal datapoints to generalize for humanity. Every sentence here should say “for me”.
What they said doesn’t even support the idea that language is a bottle-neck for thought, it actually argues against it. If language can’t capture the complexities of thought, then that’s the opposite point as language is a bottle-neck for thought.
I read the linked article https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-the-japanese-language and it clearly is comprised of a lot of LLM slop.
“In techie terms, the Chinese script doesn't support the structure of languages like English and Japanese. It doesn't have what it takes.”
That’s not techie that LLM slop
“Sometimes, instead…
> But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling
In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't think it's that outlandish that someone once read it as fuch-sia, incorrectly splitting it compared to the original.
In the language French, fuchsia is unequivocally read something more like few-shia, and I'd bet that even though it comes from German Fuchs-ia (fooks-ia) English has picked it up from the French side.
If you find such a loanword weird, don't you dare try reading Japanese.
https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-the-japanese-language
Are those terms substantially different from the article's claims?
THe wikipedia definition of meme is "memes: ideas, behaviors, beliefs, and expressions." The author discusses frames and mental models as a topic [0]. "[A] framing is a choice of boundaries" and "A model is an analogy. It is a simplified simulation of something else." These seem to map to meme-concepts ideas and beliefs respectively and loosely. ("Frame" is probably a meta-meme or ontology that expands or contracts what memes can exist at all or what can be discerned at all.)
0. https://aethermug.com/posts/a-framing-and-model-about-framings-and-models
Part of it is that Democrats think Republicans are bad and that Republicans think Democrats are bad.
I've been chewing on this a lot:
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
and thinking how "increasing social cohesion" seems entirely out of reach in the US although the fact is that we can't afford to go on the way we are going. It's particularly funny to me that people in Canada, next door, economically almost part of the United States (don't tell the President!) is the country with the lowest level of people saying their countrymen were bad.