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Reply · Apr 13, 2023yeah I love how LLMs are piggy-backing on thousands of years of humans refining language as an abstraction layer for the human experienceTweet · Oct 11, 2024words are a lossy abstraction layer on perception & emotion & etc; i'm feeling exhausted and wanting to go deeper with direct nonverbal experience;…Personal reflectionRepost · Sep 15, 2025RT @Dorialexander: > be a language model > all you see is tokens > you don't care, it's all abstracted away > you live for a world of pure…Reply · Sep 21, 2024@amplifiedamp multilingual => expressive: explore the union of all languages, seeking nuance & precision & economy of expression