Manolis Kellis

I wish that we could work with more diverse humans in a way.

And sort of that's one of the possibilities that I see with the advent of these large language models.

The fact that

it gives us the chance to both dial down friends of ours that we can't interpret or that are just too edgy to sort of really truly interact with, where you could have a real-time translator.

Just the same way that you can translate English to Japanese or Chinese or Korean by like real-time adaptation, you could basically suddenly have a conversation with your favorite extremist on either side of the spectrum,

and just dial them down a little bit.

So, yeah, so you can basically layer out contexts.

You can basically say, ooh, let me change New York to Texas and let me change, you know, extreme left to extreme right or somewhere in the middle or something.

And I also like the concept of being able to...

listen to the information without being dissuaded by the emotions.

In other words, everything humans say has an intonation, has some kind of background that they're coming from, reflects the way that they're thinking of you, reflects the impression that they have of you.

And all of these things are intertwined, but being able to disconnect them, being able to sort of

I mean, self-improvement is one of the things that I'm constantly working on and being able to receive criticism

from people who really hate you is difficult because it's layered in with that hatred.

But deep down, there's something that they say that actually makes sense.

Or people who love you might layer it in a way that doesn't come through.

But if you're able to sort of disconnect that emotional component from the sort of self-improvement, and basically when somebody says, whoa, that was a bunch of bullshit, did you ever do the control, this and this and that, you could just say,

oh, thanks for the very interesting presentation.

You know, I'm wondering, what about that control?

Then suddenly you're like, oh yeah, of course, I'm going to run that control.