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Unlike calculators, language-based AI feels as though it is thinking, conscious, and speaking to users because it operates through language rather than mathematics.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“but I do think that the difference here is that it's language,”
“not math.”
“And so that makes it feel like something is sort of thinking and conscious and talking to us.”28:40Report a misattribution
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