You Are The Deer In The Subway.

2026-10-11

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I've previously thought, in regards to the cognitive aspect of this: Society is inherently human, in that it must be built in ways that are feasible to exist cognitively for us. Many other versions of society would be possible if our minds worked differently. LLMs would likely be able to create a society that functions as well as ours with tasks built for their "jagged frontier".

In fact, we can see this re: computers. Before computers, certain forms of jobs and things to optimize for were not possible. We had entirely functional societies that weren't able to compute, say, optimal logistic solutions, and instead relied on human created heuristics. This, I believe, was one of the most significant advances for humans. The application to current and past LLM systems is obvious