I'm even more broadly concerned about the future of social signaling. Subtle signals (e.g. embedded within text) disappearing as human promts are transformed into LLM output. Even more so when going back from LLM output to LLM summaries on the receiver end. I believe this will either reduce information density in general, resulting in more inefficient communication, or result in a new way of authentic signaling during promting - however that looks like.
Having studied chemical engineering, I'm blown away by DeepRetro... crazy!
by the time AI is good enough to fake a deeply technical zoom interview, I doubt we'll be hiring for those roles. We'll be focused on evals for which AIs to buy, not which humans. I still struggle with what humans will be doing in this future.
Interesting points. It's true that everything is changing - as if life is confetti blowing in the wind. No one knows where it will land. As I was reading your piece, I thought, how interesting that society was formerly formed by manipulative people controlling the who, what, where, when, and how (or at least that's how law school students are pigeon-holed) and AI is causing that format to break down. There is something to be said by the intelligence of those who have come before us - and they really do deserve respect, some if not all. And now, it seems like young people have no regard for the wisdom of an older generation. Life will be chaos as a result - and unnecessarily so. But some parts of that change are good. Young people need to center themselves and respect the wisdom of elders along their path toward making a new world. Elders have been through all of it before. In terms of emotion, and really human activity in total, there is nothing new under the sun, as King Soloman wisely recognized.
I'm even more broadly concerned about the future of social signaling. Subtle signals (e.g. embedded within text) disappearing as human promts are transformed into LLM output. Even more so when going back from LLM output to LLM summaries on the receiver end. I believe this will either reduce information density in general, resulting in more inefficient communication, or result in a new way of authentic signaling during promting - however that looks like.
Having studied chemical engineering, I'm blown away by DeepRetro... crazy!
by the time AI is good enough to fake a deeply technical zoom interview, I doubt we'll be hiring for those roles. We'll be focused on evals for which AIs to buy, not which humans. I still struggle with what humans will be doing in this future.
Interesting points. It's true that everything is changing - as if life is confetti blowing in the wind. No one knows where it will land. As I was reading your piece, I thought, how interesting that society was formerly formed by manipulative people controlling the who, what, where, when, and how (or at least that's how law school students are pigeon-holed) and AI is causing that format to break down. There is something to be said by the intelligence of those who have come before us - and they really do deserve respect, some if not all. And now, it seems like young people have no regard for the wisdom of an older generation. Life will be chaos as a result - and unnecessarily so. But some parts of that change are good. Young people need to center themselves and respect the wisdom of elders along their path toward making a new world. Elders have been through all of it before. In terms of emotion, and really human activity in total, there is nothing new under the sun, as King Soloman wisely recognized.