LLMs are fundamentally planetary-scale consensus machines.

· Bits and Bobs 3/31/25
  • LLMs are fundamentally planetary-scale consensus machines.[rs][rt][ru][rv][rw]
    • They are large, hard-to-update social sifting processes.
      • The way to update the ranking is to retrain the entire model.
    • They learn to replicate bits of writing that humans in the past found valuable enough[rx] to write down and share.