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Paracompact • today at 9:34 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You seem to describe humanity and AI's ability to predict and manipulate humanity a bit like how a physicist describes the ability of an apparatus to affect a given dynamical system. So let me put it like this: (1) You cannot model the effect f_predict(X) of your probe X with arbitrarily low |f_actual(X) - f_predict(X)|, and (2) you cannot guarantee the impact |f_actual(X)| is arbitrarily large (or that f_actual(X) saturates its codomain) when X in our case is restricted to inputs of the form, "tokens chosen in an LLM conversation."


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Borealid • today at 9:46 AM

That's a very sophisticated way to say "words can't convince people to do things".

I'm not sure that's a strong position to adopt in our world, but following your example I also won't try to persuade you otherwise.

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