The Subject Supposed to Know Nothing: Lacan and the Large Language Model

Overview I enjoyed this post by codepoetics , investigating the hunch that a number of ideas in Continental Philosophy actually read like precursors to our experience of LLMs. For example, Derrida's concept of différance - where meaning is generated through the endless interplay of signifiers, rather than a stable link between signifier and signified - feels akin to the probabilistic interplay of…