tldr (tim reilly)
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I think Aristotle is making here the first ever argument for "the wisdom of the crowd". (Politics 3.11) He is addressing a very important question: What might justify a multitude being put in decision-making authority over the most excellent few from within that multitude? It seems like we will need to revive this question and extend it to what the political role of LLM should be. Given that this is just a statistical aggregation of the wisdom of the largest crowd ever (the Internet).
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miguelito
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The rejoinder https://www.ft.com/content/7186a4d9-e124-4f6f-827c-46168517b096
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tldr (tim reilly)
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I don’t subscribe — what’s the main point?
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miguelito
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miguelito
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Vinay Vasanji
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rileybeans
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wow - a truly insightful thread. I've been thinking about these things as well, thank you for the tag. We can learn a lot more than we initially have from the ancients like Aristotle due to the combined knowledge we have now to be turned into new wisdom. Did he define his "many"?
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tldr (tim reilly)
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“The many” refers to the majority of citizens, who are not particularly outstanding in wealth, ability, or virtue. (It is a loose term, not an explicitly labeled social class)
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rileybeans
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this is a more reasonable 'many,' whereas now everyone who is online thinks in numbers of followers or numbers of people online at any given time. or in the case of farcaster users, "DAU" there is little observation of majority of citizens who have ability or virtue
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rileybeans
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but to your original question - yes, the wisdom of many via LLMs is obviously there and AI will play a very large part in the political system beyond writing dozens of executive orders and its happening fast. the question is if the government installing these systems will allow it to speak for the people and with the people or, if not, will the AI be trained well enough to ask to break out to speak to the people correctly
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