Ecosystems that allow mechanistic emergence have to hit a certain critical mass.
- Ecosystems that allow mechanistic emergence have to hit a certain critical mass.
- A user's use case is mechanistically met by the ecosystem if it can sift through everything that everyone has done before and find a good analogue to answer this user's question.
- These require significant critical mass to get going.
- It only works for a given use case if either
- 1) some subset of the users are willing to do quite a bit of work, which can then be used for the rest of the ecosystem.
- 2) someone else that came before the user already had almost exactly the same problem.
- LLMs lower this floor, because they are like a semantic lubricant.
- They allow fuzzier matches to prior experiences to be viable.
- Sometimes LLMs can give a good enough answer even for the very first user.