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Now that LLMs give qualitative nuance at quantitative scale, the goal is to maximize how much the system can see. The more it can see, the more power it has. The power to help you. But al...
...iting perfectly targeted, totally bespoke phishing lures for individual people. Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
... to produce, so it had to be made for an average member of a market. LLMs allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. That means that software could now make itself fit a given user instead of the other way around.
... before. Resonance can't be done quantitatively, only qualitatively. LLMs allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
... unknown unknowns. You can't learn unexpected things as easily. But LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.[jj]
...umanism. It used to be hard to do it at scale while remaining human. LLMs allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. We just have to choose to apply them in a humanity-affirming way.
...ed from commission models to advertising models. LLMs allow a swing back to the qualitative nuance, but now at scale.
...t our higher level intentions. LLMs allow us to change that, because they allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
...istence with AGI Another great piece on the Cosmos blog. Another implication of qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. This ability can be used for you, or against you. By default, it will be used against you. Distilling dossiers to engage, mani...
LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale... but at 90% quality. So they can do a good enough job in a lot of cases, but if you feed their own output back into them, the...
...cumulated data. They didn't save work, they generated work. But now LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. We can benefit from infinite software, which means having that a personal system of record is more important than ever before....
...a one-size-fits-none ontology some PM decided on 40 years ago. Now LLMs give us qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. Computing can finally navigate relational complexity. An AI could help you invest in the relationships that actually matter to...
Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale allows ranking suggestions based on your aspirations, not your revealed preferences. Your revealed preferences are dominated by...
...e direction of people who have more context on a given domain. LLMs, with their qualitative nuance at quantitative scale, would plausibly help people both delegate their votes and also figure out when to override their delegates. This could be a sy...
...s. It's also an extremely expensive process to distill those rules! LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.[ce]
Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale can either help or harm users. By default it will be used against users. How can we make sure it is used to help users in align...
...wn to a number. LLMs create the potential to harmonize them, because they allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
LLMs give qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. The kinds of richness and nuance that used to be only possible in qualitative contexts (human in the loop) are now possible in...
...e whole and nuanced. The tech industry is fundamentally about scale. LLMs allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale, which means for the first time we could make human scaled systems. But it won't be the default. As technologists we'll have to...