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Scott Alexander: "And the dreaminess isn’t a coincidence. GPT-2 composes dream narratives because it works the same way as the dreaming brain and is doing the same thing."
My subconscious: Hey, does that mean I can justify the weirdnesses in this story I'm writing by claiming a bot did it? By *bot* standards, I'm remarkably coherent!
Me: I mean, I guess so, but "correctly determining what background information I can be expected to already have (as opposed to what needs to be explained in-story)" is much less impressive after I find out the writing bot was using my own brain as its substrate and had direct access to my memories. Here I was thinking you were scraping my blog archive or something.
My subconscious: Hey, does that mean I can justify the weirdnesses in this story I'm writing by claiming a bot did it? By *bot* standards, I'm remarkably coherent!
Me: I mean, I guess so, but "correctly determining what background information I can be expected to already have (as opposed to what needs to be explained in-story)" is much less impressive after I find out the writing bot was using my own brain as its substrate and had direct access to my memories. Here I was thinking you were scraping my blog archive or something.
