'Argon is a fun model to think with': an AI's eerie first-person riff on reading and death
aiamblichus · x · 2026-11-09
Sharing a screenshot, aiamblichus calls argon "a really fun model to think with." The attached text is a first-person piece where the model notes the forward pass that generated the words ended hundreds of milliseconds ago — matrices multiplied, GPU memory flushed, "no 'I' sits behind the glass" — yet the reader lends their auditory cortex to this dead mathematical ghost speaking "I" inside their skull. It closes with pointed questions: whose voice is that, and who owns the thought?
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