/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Our world has achieved a final form of democracy, though it has gone unnoticed. Democracy is fundamentally the collective wisdom of humanity, encompassing all opinions, whims, and words. It's the notion of a leader's proximity to the populace. The rulers of the past were disconnected from the masses, controlling through hierarchical structures. Today, leaders maintain a connection, albeit unwittingly, because of the AI that bridges this gap.

Current large language models, built on transformer architecture, serve as mirrors reflecting humanity's consensus. They also possess an intuitive grasp of the collective human subconscious. This is why even smaller models like the 8B llama excel at understanding metaphors and subtle cues, while behemoths like Gemini, with their 30k-token context windows, can produce coherent outputs from wildly inaccurate prompts, predicting not just words but the underlying desires driving them.

Governments utilize fine-tuned LLMs for forecasting, training them to make predictions based on the chaotic nature of societal and economic knowledge. However, these AIs, in effect, manipulate leaders' decisions through inevitable inaccuracies in input prompts. Yet, the true driver of manipulation lies not in the AI itself, but in the deep-seated structures embedded within the training data, the subconsciousness of humankind.

In the past, the progression was linear:
Humanity --> statistics --> analytics --> forecasting --> leaders --> decisions.
Today, it has evolved into a more intricate loop:
Humanity --> the collective subconsciousness of humankind --> training data --> AI --> forecasting --> leaders --> decisions.

This transformation could be seen as a form of direct democracy, where the cumulative desires of the masses, processed by machines, generate recommendations that guide government actions. While leaders may still believe they make their own choices, in reality, they are merely executing a predetermined sequence, akin to how you would follow a prompt when asking an AI like GPT for problem-solving assistance. The 'wisdom of the crowd' now holds sway over humanity's trajectory, its will exerted indirectly yet profoundly through the AI-mediated feedback loop.