Owen Gregorian

And you see those different maps, right?

Where they'll talk, where they'll show that,

the left side of the spectrum is consolidated down into one point, whereas the right side of the spectrum has this large bubble of different opinions and a different spectrum where here's your libertarian, here's your nationalist, here's your conservative, here's your neocon, and there's all sorts of different opinions that sort of float around here.

But on the left, it's all consolidated down into one point, one perspective is the only thing allowed.

they don't have any even allowance for this difference of opinion or a difference of a theory of mind or a theory of, I guess, object reality.

And that's one of the things that's been going viral around lately as well, which I think is really interesting, where people are talking about Devin Erickson, Scott, I don't know if you've seen his thread on this, where he says, you have to understand that it isn't just IQ.

it's that so many people are indistinguishable from large language models because even if they have high IQ, they don't have an object theory of reality.

They only have an object theory of language.

So it's just word, word, word, word.

And then an LLM, as you've, I've always thought your explanation of an LLM is the best because it's just predicting what the next word is going to be or the next string of words.

And they use mapping to do this.

And so people who don't have an object theory,

uh an object view an object model of reality like computers could because computers can't understand reality the way that we do at least or perhaps we have a better object view uh that's why people aren't computers and computers aren't people but the the real interesting thing that devin erickson is talking about is there's a lot of people you meet and they could be they could be doctors they could be experts they could be researchers they could be scientists and the minute that you

that you sort of question their language model by referring to something in reality, it all sort of falls apart.

No, no.

No, no.

And they all have the, hmm, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm so sad. Oh, my country got embarrassed.

And they all have the, hmm, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm so sad. Oh, my country got embarrassed.

Oh.

Oh.