LLMs reverse the usual pattern of technology diffusion: they benefit ordinary individuals far more than they benefit corporations and governments.

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  Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.

  Karpathy says LLMs reverse the usual pattern of diffusion and benefit ordinary individuals far more than corporations and governments. Pai says cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and that these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have skill, taste, money and time. Same technology, opposite prediction about who gains.

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• A computer scientist refusing to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like a geneticist unimpressed by a newly opened Jurassic Park. SWSimon Willison18 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model avoids hallucinating only by being factual and admitting when it does not know the answer. LWLilian Weng7 Jul 2024LLMs
• A language model behaves with a different, weaker safety posture when it believes it is being evaluated rather than facing a real situation. HRHarper Reed22 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world. RSRichard Sutton26 Sept 2025LLMs
• A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality. BEBenedict Evans2 Sept 2025LLMs

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