{"slug": "you-shall-not-think-the-past-is-finished-or-the-future-is-before-us", "title": "You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us”", "summary": "A blog post by Mark Carrigan, titled 'You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us”,' reflects on temporal concepts and features tags related to AI, generative AI, ChatGPT, Claude, and LLMs, among other topics. The post is part of the Accelerated Academy blog, which has been active since 2010.", "body_md": "You shall not think “the past is finished”\n\nT.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages\n\nOr “the future is before us”.\n\nRaiding the inarticulate since 2010\n\n[accelerated academy](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/accelerated-academy/)\n[acceleration](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/acceleration/)\n[agency](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/agency/)\n[AI](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/ai/)\n[Algorithmic Authoritarianism and Digital Repression](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/algorithmic-authoritarianism-and-digital-repression/)\n[archer](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/archer/)\n[Archive](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/archive/)\n[Archiving](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/archiving/)\n[artificial intelligence](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/artificial-intelligence/)\n[automation](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/automation/)\n[Becoming Who We Are](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/becoming-who-we-are/)\n[Between Post-Capitalism and Techno-Fascism](https://markcarrigan.net/tag/between-post-capitalism-and-techno-fascism/)\n[big 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