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... audiences, companies sound hollow, flat, literally inhuman." Companies are the hive mind, the average, of the organization. Sounds like one voice but is actually inhuman. Not too dissimilar from LLMs and why their "view from nowhere" voic...
...u'd miss the fact that they are a totally different category: a planetary-scale hive mind of vibes and memories. LLMs can quickly retrieve past vibes and tweak them to fit a novel pattern, but only a little bit. But with planetary scale, i...
...multitude singing coherently. Not a single perspective, the collective, average hive mind of humanity.[acq][acr] Talking to everyone and no one. Haunting, larger than life.[acs]
...tifice that the LLM is "just a normal human", when in reality it's a collective hive mind of humanity that has orders of magnitude better recall than any human... and also lacks some aspects of common sense. I see dialogues with LLMs as no...
LLMs talk to us like they're a human, but they're a collective hive mind of society, presenting as a singular "person". Like the alien in Contact. "I'm assuming this form not because it's natural to me, but because it's na...
...e powerful the other participant the more insight. So if one participant is the hive mind of all of humanity… wow![agn][ago]
...ing to an LLM feels not like talking to a person, but talking to the collective hive mind of humanity.[ajm] LLMs give great guacamole recipes, because they've seen every guacamole recipe and can triangulate what they all have in common.
...lated to Hegel's dialectical process. The human and the computer, the distilled hive mind of all of society, in a co-creative process. Fundamentally different, fundamentally better, than a computer talking to a computer, or a human talking...
...d intuition of all of society into a cultural technology you can talk with. The hive mind with a voice.[anp][anq]
...e. What if instead of talking to an AI omniscient oracle, you were talking to a hive mind of little AI sprites?