Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird @violetmadder
One of my favorite books is “Seeing Like A State” by James C Scott. It’s about how states try to make the world “legible” by creating simplified understandings of the world, and then actually imposing those understandings on to the world. This often works in the short term, but destroys the contextual knowledge and capacities of the people imposed upon in the long run.

This style of polling might better reflect that contextual knowledge

@futurebird @violetmadder as someone who has worked in NLP for over a decade, word counts would be a much better way to go. You could probably also cluster them in some way which might help distill the data down.

In fact, this would be a terrible application of an LLM. Anything involving counting or understanding of anything countable, and LLMs fall flat on their face. They generate random words, in essence. Not good when you’re trying to observe something.