The idea of an LLM as a disembodied, non-situated absorber of all information reveals a failure to acknowledge human finitude — the fact that human knowledge is inherently bounded, culturally situated, and grounded in a limited set of inaccessible sensory experiences.

43:42something about us as knowers kind of crosses beyond the boundaries of finitude into like a universal boundless realm of knowledge. And I I do think that the very idea that a non situated sort of non-embodied absorber of facts like an LLM that kind of just sits there and like sucks in all the information in the world that that could somehow be a counterpart to how we know things as human beings. I think

44:15that's an instantiation of this like lack of acknowledgement of human finitude because it's human finitude like coming from a culture which is expert at some things but not other things and whose knowledge is grounded in a discrete set of sensory experiences that are not accessible to other people. that boundedness of knowledge to say that that is not inherent to what it is to be a knower that a purely disembodied

44:43um absorber of facts is what we are. I think that sort of revealing that kind of lack of acknowledgement of finitude which is there in that tradition that he criticized. >> We're kind of moving into this technologically embedded world and and it's changing our nature in some way. this tradition that Haidiger good criticizes from that path from philosophy to technology of this aspiration to sort of transcend

45:12embodiment, transcend materiality to create for ourselves um this leap into a almost spiritual world of pure information. And it's interesting how like technology infrastructure is presented to consumers, people like me, as like behind the scenes, immaterial, not really connected with real world constraints. Like it's the cloud. It floats above us. There's no [snorts] there's no almost cost to it. It's weightless. um that's not how technology infrastructure works, but it seems like