An important skill: being able to think in a multi-dimensional latent space… but also collapse it to situated concreteness on demand.

2026-07-20 · Bits and Bobs 7/20/26

An important skill: being able to think in a multi-dimensional latent space… but also collapse it to situated concreteness on demand.
- LLMs are great at this!

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