Robin Hanson: LLMs' default worldview comes from an Internet that punished heterodoxy
RichardMCNgo · x · 2026-10-02
Economist Robin Hanson argues that most LLMs carry a default worldview shaped by the Internet's "closure" era, when intelligent or popular heterodoxy met bans, suppression, or demonetization — meaning the training corpus itself embeds that bias.
A compact big-picture observation worth reading alongside debates on model alignment and content moderation.
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