Yes, if you think about it… words themselves are extremely low bandwidth. So it initially seems human communication is extremely slow.

But combinations of just a fews words is actually an incredibly vast storage space (12 words prove this phenomena).

Sentences (not even paragraphs) have an enormous Shannon number, and therefore sentences are essentially an insanely powerful compression function for communication of the sophisticated abstractions that we each hold in our heads.

LLM’s have undeniably cracked this compression function and also now build their own internal abstractions from these decipherings. LLM’s are also able to communicate their abstractions the other way via the same compression function.

Those 3 capabilities are really impressive and were actually quite simple to reach through mere scaling.

But LLM’s are yet to emulate abstractions of our direct jungle experience. I think ML can do this, as we see with self guided rocket boosters, drones and driverless cars. I think the multimodal LLM’s are now beginning to bridge the two worlds of cyber and jungle. Once they do, the next step is that they can then navigate the jungle by being embodied as robots.

I expect we will see all that in around 10 years. The race is real, still not spoken about much is the fact that it solves demographic taxbase erosion without the need for inward migration for all the major economies and we are already seeing Western politics turning away from the immigration strategy.

You can walk through where this is all heading and the societal choices that populations and powers will face along the way.

But again, I think we will land on highly specialised forests and not monoliths. I think we will see declouding and embodiment and I think we will own local embodied private agents, with the state owning large numbers of their own public agents.

A social protocol of disseminated power will emerge and it will be enforced by the tyranny of majority.

I think society is going to go through a series of radical changes, migration U-turn will be the first, as we are collectively persuaded to collaborate with the interests of our local power centre (political capital).