Because of my background in military machines, tanks and air planes I immediately thought of the Weaponizing machine. like much of the internet, good technology can be turned to evil purposes.
I read your post first then Krugman's and he had some suggestions for machines: Magical Thinking, Anna Karenina and voodoo. There must be an infinity of machines.
The Feyerabend Machine - tells you that you're all arguing about different things using different worldviews and methods, and arbitrarily decides on the official consensus by astrology, and/or reading the entrails of chickens, or polling homeless people. But it's a lot of fun.
In honour of your title: the Hawkwind machine - the LLM hallucinates wildly and you just realise the whole thing’s a bad trip, man. (This is my settled view anyway)
Omg I miss Unfogged so much
The key problem with the Bordieu machine is that by using it you are inherently disqualified from doing so
Because of my background in military machines, tanks and air planes I immediately thought of the Weaponizing machine. like much of the internet, good technology can be turned to evil purposes.
I read your post first then Krugman's and he had some suggestions for machines: Magical Thinking, Anna Karenina and voodoo. There must be an infinity of machines.
Genuinely LLMs would be good at the Goffman machine.
I did seriously pitch that one to the DeepMind team
The Feyerabend Machine - tells you that you're all arguing about different things using different worldviews and methods, and arbitrarily decides on the official consensus by astrology, and/or reading the entrails of chickens, or polling homeless people. But it's a lot of fun.
It seems like The Habermas Machine can be added to Churchman’s hierarchy of inquiring systems, about which I wrote here: https://realizable.substack.com/p/c-west-churchmans-systems-epistemology
In honour of your title: the Hawkwind machine - the LLM hallucinates wildly and you just realise the whole thing’s a bad trip, man. (This is my settled view anyway)