Humanity compressed centuries of words into ghosts that model the world
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-09-14
A reflective post marveling that humanity created language and spent centuries describing the world well enough to compress accumulated words into "ghosts" — LLMs — which hold a reasonably accurate model of the physical world as perceived by human brains.
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