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Use these models to enable people to be tolerant and value other communication styles... not to train everyone to communicate in identical fashions.

We seem to be working hard to homogenise humanity. Soon we'll all be trained by the same model to generate the same answers in the same way to the same beat. The era of the McHuman.

We seem to think we can use LLMs as an edge to make us richer or better than other humans. We're not competing with each other, we're competing with the LLM.




I agree. In my own experience the vast majority of miscommunications are a matter of style, opinion, or assumption of essential facts in a domain unfamiliar to the listener.

People don't like to feel dumb. If you overexplain or underexplain you will trigger these feelings.

People also don't like confronting opinions that differ. Many followers of a given subject readily buy into the popular opinions within that space and ignore hygiene during discussion.

People also don't like reading or listening to disorganized or long-winded thoughts.


But everyone wants to communicate in identical fashions... the most commended book for social skills is from the 1930s.




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