4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Language models can exert soft power through stories that subtly influence users’ values and aspirations, including children’s ideas about their future.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026

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“yeah and so and and you know i think that's just natural like but what's interesting here is i think lm's are essentially a similar type of soft power to movies and beyond because they're obviously also”
“highly important for cybersecurity and so on but one of their many aspects is that soft power of storytelling like if like a child asks an lm like tell me an inspiring story of what i should do when i grow up right it's like those are all these like subtle things so i think it's important uh for for western world i do love you know individualism uh i do think uh despite uh some of its flaws like capitalism is the best way we have found”
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