Is Human Thinking Also Mechanical?
ctjlewis · x · 2026-07-17
A reposter shared their continued optimism about LLMs, arguing that **the human brain itself is highly mechanical and pattern-driven**, and that much economic activity is essentially an "autoregressive" process. The original post acknowledged that this perspective "mashes several concepts together," but maintained its core stance: **human capacity to generate economic value might be more mechanical than we think, and the way cognitive abilities scale shares similarities with transformers**.
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