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Models capture the symbolic residue of language when language is ingested into them.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“And I use the term abstraction mounting quite a lot. So when we speak language and all of this gets ingested into the models,”
“it's capturing the symbolic residue of language.”21:13Report a misattribution
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