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by _Parfait_ 764 days ago
You're watching the species be reduced to an LLM.
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Were humans an interesting species to start with, if they can be reduced to an LLM?
The reduction is not a lossless process.
Yeah, maybe not, and what do you make of it? Now that the secret sauce has been revealed and it's nothing but the right proportions of the same old ingredients?
Hey that LLM is trained on everything we've ever produced, so I wouldn't say we've been "reduced", more like copied. I'll save my self-loathing for when a very low-parameter model can do this.
I just don't know if everything we've ever (in the digital age) produced and how it is being weighted by current cultural values will help us or hurt us more. I don't fully know how LLMs work with the weighting, I just imagine that there are controls and priorities put on certain values more than others and I just wonder how future generations will look back at our current priorities.