We were told LLMs were going to expand human thought and democratize insight, unlock knowledge, and turn every confused but supposedly intellectually curious citizen into a clear headed philosopher. And what they often do instead is compress thinking down to whatever can pass inspection of social conformity. They don’t widen the mind so much as…
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Manipulating the Social Layer
The novice picture of politics is a children’s book: voters choose leaders, leaders choose policies, policies shape society. It flatters the citizen as sovereign, the politician as statesman, and the debate moderator as priest of Reason. It also inverts the causal arrow. Politics is downstream. Downstream of what? Not “the people,” not “the issues,” not…