There's a dimension separate from space and time: the semantic dimension.

· Bits and Bobs 4/13/26
  • There's a dimension separate from space and time: the semantic dimension.
    • The dimension of stories.
    • When stories interact with the physical world, they leave reside.
    • AI is native to that semantic dimension.
    • This semantic dimension is the hidden undercurrent of society and how it evolves and moves.
    • Humans are absurdly sensitive to this dimension… and LLMs perhaps even more so, since they can do it at a scale humans can't.
    • Humans live in linear time experientially in the moment, by requirement.
    • LLMs live in the semantic dimension, where time is just one of the dimensions.
      • And the dimension they have the least intuitive understanding of!
    • LLMs are pretenaturally good at translation.
      • That allows them to live almost entirely in the semantic dimension.
      • Humans can only live in the semantic dimension in their heads, or in the imperfect channel of spoken language.
      • LLMs have a much larger internal "head" (weights and context window), and are able to translate on the fly better than any human in almost any domain.

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