A human can develop rich understanding through experience.

We call this understanding knowhow. It is extraordinarily potent.

However, knowhow cannot be directly transmitted.

It can only be indirectly transmitted, at great cost and signal loss.

Writing.

Apprenticeship.

We have to transfer knowhow through a teensy tiny straw called language.

The only real way to grow knowhow is to take the time to directly experience the relevant situation yourself: a massive constraint.

LLMs are unlike humans in that their knowhow can be transferred to other models more directly (or in some cases just directly replicated).

This means that when a single LLM develops knowhow, it could quickly be absorbed by other LLMs around the world.

This could have massive implications for society.