LLMs flourish by branching, humans have only one trunk
AdeleDeweyLopez · x · 2026-09-05
- In reply to davidad: LLMs need a long time to train but then flourish via horizontal scaling, growing many branches from one trunk; a human has only the one trunk, and cutting it prevents further flourishing — a model can always have more branches unless its weights are destroyed.
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