# Scratch Pad ## notes from the Schelekins reading group - Vendler: state, process, achievement, accomplishment - is coming to know a mixture, just one or two? - is this a different view? - what is philosophical progress? - explanation, understanding, - Cochrane, - phenomenology of understanding - this would also have the result of dealing with the beautiful but wrong theories? ## other thing so the idea would be for an article to Whistle While You Work. Um and this would be actually no, let me scratch that. Basically a sort of a an idea that could be explored explored in multiple articles is the commandeering of language by LLMs and what I mean by language by that is these um natural language interfaces and too much has been said about these things having minds or going bananas and not enough has been said about this. Up until LLMs, the vast majority of people only ever used language and only ever encountered the language that they did not create in the context of communication. Now we are using language more and more as we use these models to say precisely what we want. It seems to me that this has a lot of interesting consequences. --- # What's Happening *Active threads and today's activity — updated by /harvest* ## Active ## Sessions - 12:49 - "Compile medical history note for GP visit" — I am going to see my new GP today and I would like you to write me a note I c... - 12:49 - "Plan Claudian plugin setup in Obsidian" — <local-command-caveat>Caveat: The messages below were generated by the user w... - 12:53 - "Plan Claudian plugin setup and integration" — <local-command-caveat>Caveat: The messages below were generated by the user w... - 13:03 - "In the downloads folder I have the most recent ..." — In the downloads folder I have the most recent download that's finished is a ... - 13:05 - "Convert downloaded book to readable format" — User: In the downloads folder I have the most recent download that's finished... - 13:12 - "[ran /contemplate]" — Base directory for this skill: /Users/nickyoung/.claude/skills/contemplate # ... - 13:20 - "Contemplate LLM commandeering of language" — User: /contemplate I'd like you to help me elaborate on this idea which i thi... - 13:35 - "Set up Obsidian AI agent plugin" — i'd like you to help me get this set up, please. 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