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How much power and control do we assume we have in determining the ultimate purpose or "end goal" (telos) of large language models?

Assuming teleological essentialism is real, where does the telos come from? How much of it comes from the creators? If there are other sources, what are they and what's the mechanism of transfer?






LLMs by themselves are pretty useless, it's only during inference where they produce potentially valuable output. So the analysis of causality isn't just exclusive to the LLM, but the combination of the model and prompt.

So there is some cause and influence by the models biases, or its essence if you must, but the prompt takes an important role too. I believe it's important for companies to figure this out, but for me personally I'm not interested at all in this balance.

What I'm interested in is how I can use these models as an extension of myself. And I'm also interested in showing people around me how they could do the same.


It's a bit difficult to understand how your comment responds to the teleology of LLMs. Can you please clarify?

I said it's important for companies, but for me I'm more interest in how it functions for me personally, for the average consumer.



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