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LLMs do not represent the distribution of human beings, so querying them a billion times will not by itself produce a model of humanity.
swyx · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“LLMs do not model the distribution of humans spamming it out a billion times is not going to help you model humanity.”Play from 58:17Report a misattribution
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