LLMs are a new instrument to inspect society and intelligence.

· Bits and Bobs 8/10/26
  • LLMs are a new instrument to inspect society and intelligence.
    • Like a microscope or telescope, it opens up a new world that was previously hidden to us.
    • Today our understanding of intelligence is just superstitions, like alchemy before chemistry.
    • Now we find in our hands a white-box form of intelligence, like our own but also fundamentally different.
      • Perhaps human intelligence was an edge case for a more general form of fundamental thing.
    • We're ready for a unified, fundamental theory of intelligence to emerge.
    • There are a lot of people studying intelligence from across different disciplines, in their own way.
    • Now is the time for them all to come together and start distilling a shared language.
    • The same way complexity theory distilled in Santa Fe.
    • Where will the science of intelligence emerge?

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