Humans have limited capacity to specialize.

· Bits and Bobs 10/6/25
  • Humans have limited capacity to specialize.
    • It takes us a lot of experience and study to learn a specialty.
    • Our brains also don't have a ton of space to store many of them.
    • Most of the interesting game-changing insights come at the intersection of multiple distinct specialties.
    • But that requires finding one person with two random specialities (e.g. quantum computing and sculpture).
    • Or it requires high-trust teams of specialists who together are able to solve the problem.
    • LLMs can absorb massive numbers of specialities.
    • LLMs can be meta-specialists.
    • They don't even need to coordinate or trust one another.
    • It should be able to coax them into finding new game-changing insights with the right prompting.

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