Language was only ever a workaround for not having write access to each other's weights
korymath · x · 2026-11-03
AI researcher Kory Mathewson offered a sharp one-liner: humans need language only because we lack write access to each other's weights — language is fundamentally a low-bandwidth, indirect communication channel. The analogy cleverly maps LLM weights onto human neural connections and resonated widely in the AI community.
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