This issue is about a visit to Seoul last week, and how it connected some previously fragmented thoughts about illegibility, meaning-making, and problems in AI. (ikr.)
Really enjoyed this. There's a best case scenario I think about often where the need to assert our human-ness in the face of AI becomes a forcing function to confront things like meaning head on.
> there doesn’t seem to be any good way to formalise subjective meaning mathematically
Stephen Wolfram seems to be onto something making observers formally part of a theory of the universe: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-the-ruliad/
Really enjoyed this. There's a best case scenario I think about often where the need to assert our human-ness in the face of AI becomes a forcing function to confront things like meaning head on.