To LLMs, humans will seem like trees.

· Bits and Bobs 4/7/25
  • To LLMs, humans will seem like trees.
    • Humans can perceive at most about 10 bits of information per second.
    • This is as fast as human OODA loops can go.
    • This loop is likely faster than any other animal.
    • Our whole constructed environment is designed around that 10 bits per second limit we all share.
    • But computers have a massively faster OODA loop[rn].
    • Before computers were entirely mechanistic.
    • Now with LLMs they can do human-style reasoning.
    • What happens when we are no longer the fastest twitch "species"?[ro]
    • There's a mesmerizing video by Adam Magyar of an insanely fast frame rate of people on a subway platform.
    • In it, the people look like trees.
    • That's how we'd look to something that has a massively faster OODA loop.

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