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    "their widespread use will lead to a thinning of that complexity"
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  "textContent": "The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the social complexity of the civilization whose language it digested”, and their widespread use will lead to a thinning of that complexity, “undermining the conditions for its own advancement”. (And ours.)",
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