Capturing the social complexities of a concept like "extended family" is basically impossible mechanistically.
- Capturing the social complexities of a concept like "extended family" is basically impossible mechanistically.
- To capture it mechanistically requires one central well-operationalized ontology.
- But for nuanced social things that's impossible, because it's so contextual.
- Family could run the gamut and is a situated context.
- One example: the person who is not a blood relative but is basically a grandmother to your kids.
- Another example: your blood relative Cousin Vinny who you don't trust alone in the house to not steal the silverware.
- LLMs can help handle the nuance of family nicely because they can handle it non-mechanistically, and use richer context.