Talk the Talk
130: Back to the FTR (with Séan Roberts, Cole Robertson, and Annemarie Verkerk)
December 6, 20252h 53m · 30,213 words
Show notes
You know the story. The language you speak doesn't determine your savings. If your language has a future tense, there's no impact on the way you see or describe the future. Language and perception are separate. Well, maybe it's time to revisit this. Séan Roberts and Cole Robertson are finding a cognitive connection, not with how our language makes us talk about the future, but with how our language lets us express uncertainty.
Highlighted moments
we found across the board that, um, when you look at how, uh, the future tense works and how this temporal distance stuff works, all of that is just non-significant.
“LLM Grooming refers to the deliberate manipulation of large language models by flooding their training data with disinformation, aiming to bias their outputs towards specific narratives.”
“the most exhausting relationships I've ever had are with people who you have to have reality fights with. You have to constantly do battle to establish that the version of events that you remember was real.”
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