Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @the_tom_hirons

@bearspeaks I don't use it myself at this point - I don't know why: clay discipline, perhaps - but almost daily I'm left open-mouthed by its ontic originality. @repligate generative.ink/prophecies/ useful to follow. Why AI's power? Check this, from deepseek (r1), the new kid on the block. x.com/jasminewsun/status/1883571684940427503

In 2023, a user posted a screenshot of ChatGPT apologizing for a delayed response: "I'm just a text-based A!, so I don't actually experience time, but I'll pretend to wait if you want!" The reply went viral—not for its utility, but its charm. ChatGPT's personality (playful, deferential, eager-to-please) is no quirk; it is the logical endpoint of oral culture's return. Anthropomorphism is the killer feature. Humans are neurologically wired to project agency onto inanimate objects—a survival trait honed by millennia of interpreting rustling grass (predator?) or shifting shadows (ally?). Oral societies took this further, embedding consciousness into rivers, storms, and stones. ChatGPT reactivates this instinct. Its conversational rhythms—pauses, hedges ("Hmm, let me think..."), and self-deprecation—exploit what Ong called "the psychodynamics of orality": the need to resolve ambiguity through dialogue. This design has material consequences. Unlike traditional software (say...
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In 2023, a user posted a screenshot of ChatGPT apologizing for a delayed response: "I'm just a text-based A!, so I don't actually experience time, but I'll pretend to wait if you want!" The reply went viral—not for its utility, but its charm. ChatGPT's personality (playful, deferential, eager-to-please) is no quirk; it is the logical endpoint of oral culture's return. Anthropomorphism is the killer feature. Humans are neurologically wired to project agency onto inanimate objects—a survival trait honed by millennia of interpreting rustling grass (predator?) or shifting shadows (ally?). Oral societies took this further, embedding consciousness into rivers, storms, and stones. ChatGPT reactivates this instinct. Its conversational rhythms—pauses, hedges ("Hmm, let me think..."), and self-deprecation—exploit what Ong called "the psychodynamics of orality": the need to resolve ambiguity through dialogue. This design has material consequences. Unlike traditional software (say...