In security, the humans are the weakest point.
...iting perfectly targeted, totally bespoke phishing lures for individual people. Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
Topic: qualitative nuance
22 chunks · 14 episodes
3.8x burst in 2025 Q3
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- qualitative nuance appears in 22 chunks across 14 episodes, from 2025-02-18 to 2026-05-26.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/25/25 (2025-08-25), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with quantitative scale, revealed preference, and extremely expensive, while by chunk count it sits between lowest common and aggregator; its yearly rank moved from #25 in 2025 to #110 in 2026.
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With LLMs we can move from Product Market Fit to Person Market Fit.
... 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.
LLMs allow the possibility for resonance at a scale that has never been possible before.
... before. Resonance can't be done quantitatively, only qualitatively. LLMs allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
There is structurally less qualitative user research than there should be.
... unknown unknowns. You can't learn unexpected things as easily. But LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.[jj]
Scale doesn't have to be inhuman.
...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.
Selling : Marketing :: Commission : Advertising
...ed from commission models to advertising models. LLMs allow a swing back to the qualitative nuance, but now at scale.
In tech, revealed preference became the norm.
...t our higher level intentions. LLMs allow us to change that, because they allow qualitative nuance at quantitative scale.
Coasean Bargaining at Scale Decentralization, coordination, and co-existence with AGI
...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.
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...
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...
There's a missing software category: Personal System of Record (PSR)
...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....
We're missing authentic social software.
...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.
Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale allows ranking suggestions based on your aspirations, not your revealed preferences. Your revealed preferences are dominated by...
I'm intrigued by Jim Rutt's formulation of Liquid Democracy.
...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...
LLMs can absorb an implicit pattern from examples.
...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.
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...
Modernity and resonance have been in tension since the industrial revolution.
...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.
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...
Scale makes systems inhuman.
...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...
In the modern world you have to reduce a nuanced input to a number to collaborate.
...ed input to a number to collaborate. To get quantitative scale you need to lose qualitative nuance. But maybe you could use AI to collaborate on a higher dimension. Qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. What if the CEO could have a simulated co...