LLMs as engines of problematization

It just occurred to me how relevant Foucault’s account* of sexual behaviour as “problematized, becoming an object of concern, an element for reflection, and a material for stylization” could be to understanding LLMs. The dichotomy of thinking with vs using as a substitute for thought which I built my guidebook around could instead be framed in terms of problematization. Are we relying on them to construct objects of concern, outsourcing the cognitive labour involved in framing and guiding the process? Or are we using them as an engine to support our problematization, finding new ways to look at existing or familiar problems?

*I rarely start a sentence this way.

#foucault #LLMs #problematization

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

Why are so many #scientists only working on boring #ResearchQuestions, when they could do more interesting work instead? It is likely due to the method they use to come up with their questions, which focuses on finding tiny gaps in the current #literature. However, there is a better way to find new ideas: #Problematization. This is a book review of “Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research”. Read more on my blog: https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/against-the-dominance-of-gap-spotting (updated link)