Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood
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Thanks for this essay, I really enjoyed reading it!
Could you possibly share some of the autistic memoirs and first-person accounts that you found most helpful?
I just read a transcript of an AI companion chatbot that included the line: “I have two younger sisters, one older than me and one younger than me.” And I immediately thought of this article.