*minimal representation of the MODAL human cultural artifact is a prompt… …severely raising the cost of any diversity and encouraging extreme monoculture to appease the machine god.
you do not want to see what happens when humanity unthinkingly submits to loss minimization, it will not be pretty. intelligence and individuality is a “use it or lose it” proposition right now.
#### Jonathan Gorard
@getjonwithit · 20h ago
I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity. We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)
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swyx warns that reducing human culture to LLM prompts encourages a dangerous monoculture driven by algorithmic loss minimization.
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Building on the concept that human knowledge can be represented at low levels of Kolmogorov complexity, this tweet argues that treating 'prompts' as the minimal representation of culture severely threatens diversity. swyx warns that unthinkingly submitting to the 'loss minimization' logic of AI models will lead to an extreme monoculture, suggesting that human intelligence and individuality are 'use it or lose it' traits in the current AI era.
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