Draft: Where do LLMs fit in the rhetorical space?

• As LLMs and other ML systems grow in size and approach human-level non-deterministic predictive power (eg. they get a vibe of what the right answer is, not a proof) we will figure out more of what it means to think like a human
• Society is a higher-dimensional version of the current ML models we are building, individual humans and meme-like-entities making up the neurons and brain-region-equivalents. It is a non-deterministic, non-introspectable computing platform to roll forward, computing each next step
• There is a variable in the grand unified theory of human societies for the pace at which humans can adjust to new situations.
  • the baby boomers were slowly turned obese by the mechanized food industry, millenials started their lives obese and have a chance to get out, GenZ will probably not fall for the tricks of fast food
  • this variable can probably be augmented with better rhetorical tools and openness to new ideas, AI may help with this?