To navigate a world, you must have a model of it.

· Bits and Bobs 4/7/25
  • To navigate a world, you must have a model of it.
    • Our own actions are one of the biggest predictors of the things we see and experience in the world.
      • For example, if I choose to move my head to the right, the things I see will shift.
    • This means that a large part of our model of the world is a model of ourselves.
    • Even paramecium have models of themselves, to some degree.
    • LLMs also have models of themselves, allowing them to drive themselves to coherent outcomes more than a single token in the future.