Kevin Kelly's excellent new piece: Latent Space as a New Medium.

The ability of LLMs to hold an engaging conversation is a distracting party trick.

We've reduced all of human knowledge into a hologram that can fit into a cluster of GPUs.

It has compressed all of that in ways that inherently help discover new interpolated insights.

Crystallized hyperobjects.

The more we let go of the charismatic chatbot frame, the more we can see these objects as having new kinds of value we could have never previously discovered.