Reader Meaning / Semiosis / Structure

The Neologism as Probe

The practice of co-creating new words with AI as a method for indexing into latent space, surfacing hidden structures, and establishing new nodes in shared networks of meaning — neologisms as epistemic instruments rather than mere linguistic novelties.

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2024-06-28 AI risks and motivations "Creating a new semiotics. Perhaps a loftier ambition than the Substack will allow for, but the goal would be to use insights from speaking with language models... to scaffold new semiotic understandings."2024-06-05 Towards a systems semiotics "In creating new words and meanings, I was establishing new nodes in the network of meaning that were held very loosely."2024-06-04 Landscapes of meaning "I chose to use scape at the end of the word instead of space to indicate that these structures are naturally occuring like landscapes are."2024-06-02 Neologisms "Perhaps the neologisms are a way of creating stable paths into this high dimensional space and retrieving patterns and structures. This could suggest a new mode of interacting with the model."2024-06-02 Talking to machines "By co-creating a shared vocabulary, through neologisms, we are seeking to tap into some of these patterns and structures in oblique and recombinant ways."