LLMs are not the first time we've interacted with an emergent social technology that is orders of magnitude larger than we could possibly understand.

· Bits and Bobs 6/23/25
  • LLMs are not the first time we've interacted with an emergent social technology that is orders of magnitude larger than we could possibly understand.
    • Markets are also an emergent social technology.
    • But you can't talk to the market.
    • LLMs you can talk to.
    • It talks like a human but it doesn't have memories like we do.
    • The coherence of it is illegible to us.

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