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> Language as a public tool to understand the private life.

important to our self-knowledge <span>&rArr;</span> emphasise through reading books.

## communication.

circa [[movies/Philosophical Investigations]] by [[thoughts/Wittgenstein]]

- Concept of “language-game”
- The idea that each of us construct a pictures that we see the world through language.
- Conflict arose when pictures are not aligned, often lead to context collapse.

Possibly the most salient feature of [[thoughts/LLMs|LLMs]] is that the system is surprising patient per each interactions with humans.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fr" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When something is fundamentally bogus, it ends up being surrounded by a cloud of subsidiary bogus things. It&#39;s like the way you can prove any proposition if you start with contradictory premises.</p>&mdash; Paul Graham (@paulg) <a href="https://x.com/paulg/status/2000259667965165638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">14 décembre 2025</a></blockquote>



![[thoughts/Wittgenstein#^limit]]

## [[thoughts/representations|representations]]

[[thoughts/LLMs|Language models]] is <mark>one</mark> massive corpus representation of human knowledge.

Techniques such as [[thoughts/deep learning|deep learning]] has risen to prominence due to its ability to learn from data, and in doing so, it has the capability to represent the world in a way that is more similar to how we perceive it.