Incomprehensibly Lucid
When being exactly right may probably be wrong There are over 300,00 words defined in the English language, but only a few percent are in common usage. If every speaker clearly understood every word and used each to best describe their intention, then ambiguity and misunderstanding would dramatically decline. While most humans are incapable of such linguistic legerdemain, an LLM can do so. How might LLMs be used by people to reduce ambiguity and misunderstanding in this manner, and how would the general populous deal with these precise works? This is one of the most likely—and least discussed—civilizational effects of LLMs: language compression gives way to language re-expansion . For centuries, mass communication has favored a relatively small working vocabulary because human conversation is constrained by memory, speed, education variance, and fear of not being understood. An LLM removes much of that constraint because it can function as a semantic int...