Wonder how many people realize that GPT-3's thorough typology of Kinds of Guy combined with scale implies we will soon produce a complete interactive chronicle of human history.
Language models will know every person ever recorded since the dawn of time and their story, its unique perspective on the human condition will let it reconstruct marginal personas from fragments of their writing as instances of expansive archetypes.
β John David Pressman (@jd_pressman), Twitter thread