LLMs as Index Funds

It’s also the next stage in the long-running industrialization of human communication—one of the subjects of my forthcoming book Superbloom. For nearly two centuries, we’ve embraced the relentless speeding up of communication by mechanical means, believing that the industrial ideals of efficiency, productivity, and optimization are as applicable to... See more

LLMs lack the ability to understand a question or experience from different points of view, though they can, if prompted, generate a simulacrum of differential perspectives. Here’s Breen:

The issue is that generative AI systems don’t want messy perspective jumps. They want the median, the average, the most widely-approved of viewpoint on an issue, a

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