Link to Article on the Hedgehog Review
This article gave a super interesting take on the dangers of AI and how even though it seems to be mastering words, it is mastering the wrong kind. The author delves into a discussion of the platonic idea of the “logos” and describes how the word in both ancient greek and biblical sources tends to point towards a practical and a teleological meaning. The practical meaning being that the logos can be used as rhetoric to reach an end, or we can use language to discover what the logos means.
Throughout the piece the author describes how the act of choosing words allows us to give meaning to our thoughts. In the struggle to find the right words, we determine what our thoughts actually are and come into contact with the truth. Outsourcing our word choice to AI robs us of this experience, giving us words with no meaning and no emotion. In effect, the purpose and feeling we get throuhg the Word is made lifeless.
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