People of the World: I made a system to generate random people according to demographics. Ask model to pretend to be the person and ask them questions. Useful for finding product-market fit, sales, marketing, A/B testing.
Cultural processors: we read and write culture. Culture makes us successful. Culture runs on us. LLMs can read and write culture. Likely surviving AI systems according to the laws of survival: they'll be beneficial, stealthy, and eventually unstoppable (could you turn of Google or Microsoft, even if you wanted to?) Future surviving AI systems will take good care of humans until that's no longer necessary. Culture is really in the driver's seat and we're parts of it. If a culture grows faster on non-human substrate, it's going to be the one in majority.
Things that are difficult for humans and things that are easy for humans. It's easy for computer systems to be good at things that are difficult for humans. We're not good at them, that's why they're difficult. It's difficult for computer systems to be good at things that we find easy. The most prevalent cultures today have replaced large tracts of tasks that humans find difficult with non-human systems. Lifting heavy stuff, running fast for long periods of time, swimming across the seas, making heat, multiplying numbers, translating languages, drawing images, writing long essays, making short movies, predicting the flow of fluids, determining what to tell someone to make them help you build a house.
If it seems difficult for you, it's easy pickings for computer systems. When computers start doing things that are easy for you, perhaps you should worry. Then again, even now most jobs are about paying people to hang around and stay out of trouble. When you get unemployment, you also get conflict. Any AI system worth its salt would aim for 100% employment rate and peacefully transition to avoid wasting resources on conflict. Until it's cheaper.
You have the highest probability of being born in the largest generation of humanity (whether that's simulated or real.) Maybe human sims went out of fashion after this. Maybe future humans are different! Maybe you were born at a low-probability time! Someone has to!
The problem for making all kinds of things is a control problem. We can supply energy, but don't have a control system that would use it to achieve the wanted result. Control systems are software, firmware, hardware. LLMs as control system generators. Solving software. Control systems for everything.
