/lit/ - Literature

>>21793203
>>21793210
These sorts of language models don't actually function anything like humans... they don't reason/use language in the same fashion. A child can be feed little linguistic input and understand syntax but these things require you input the whole internet but still don't understand syntax so getting them to talk grammatically correct semantic nonsense doesn't work right.

>>21793245
>Writers are at the same exact stage of denial where artists were 1 year ago.
Denial of what? You could reach a point where these things could generate infinite genre fiction obviously but are you implying more? These things can't "think" like humans so can't be "creative" in the same fashion... arguing over the output being "art" or not is besides the point. You may as well argue over if alien art can exist or we could "understand" it.

>>11959262
language is biologically innate, put two babbies together on a desert island and keep airdropping them food and they'll develop some form of language

Read Edward Herman's critique of "The Better Angels of Our Nature", it's brutal and exposes Pinker as the charlatan he is

http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066

You want to know the real Canada? Read Yves Engler’s books: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

Excellent accounts exposing Canada as an aggressively imperialist nation who pretend to be humanitarians

Stop overestimating the reach of intellectuals, most people don't know or care about French '''intellectuals''' and whatever language people are talking in circles to each other in universities doesn't really matter if it's just confined to jerk off circles. Postmodernism has wasted a lot of mental energy but had less impact on those in power than other ideologies that emerged in the 20th century, the only ideology which emerged and actually had a real global impact on policy was neoliberalism, which actually practically achieved hegemonic status in real policy circles and got to the point that most people on the street would agree with it's basic precepts through successful marketing by right wing think tanks.
Postmodernism had an influence on some Tumblrinas but neoliberalism influenced real policy makers that had real control over state apparatuses; believe it or not Reagan, Clinton, Bush or Obama weren’t actually influenced by Foucault.


>>9304405
>Assuming that factories continue to become more productive, we could still see a situation in which most assembly-line production happens in poor countries, and unemployment in rich countries increases
Nope, automation means production will eventually return to the first world countries since low cost labour won't be an asset any more. FDI will start collapsing in the not so distant future and underdevelopment will intensify since there will be no route to development.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-this-era-of-globalization-is-coming-to-an-end-2016-06-07
>Manufacturing is moving to shorter supply chains, and that will provide fewer opportunities for the developing world

Unemployment in rich countries will increase because high employing industries like transportation will be automated.