Signals from Our Futures Past

Signals from Our Futures Past

The Model Is Not the Territory:

How Alfred Korzybski Can Help Us Survive GenAI

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Mike Amundsen
May 12, 2025
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The Growing Risk: Mistaking Output for Truth

A lawyer walks into court and submits a legal brief citing six cases. None of them exist. A student pastes a polished essay into their assignment portal, complete with citations that were never published. A product manager asks ChatGPT for market insights, then feeds the result into a slide deck without checki…

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