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The website InTheWeights.Com rates people on a 0-1000 scale re how well they are known by LLMs. As I’ll elaborate on below, I seem to be rated crazy high by them, compared to most people I’ve ever known or respected. Why?My guess: I tend to write on big ambitious topics, the topics on which I’ve written have become more popular over the years, especially in amateur online discussions, and I’ve tended to take clear distinctive positions on such topics, making it relatively cheap for LLMs to remember my name in association. Also, while humans tend to weigh sources heavily based on their prestige, LLM training so far has not emphasized this so much, making recent low status but lengthy online discussions of my ideas count more for LLMs than they do for humans.Future LLM training may well change this, but much of my current boost may persist as LLM results on many topics are now becoming pretty high status, inducing human writers to now defer to them.Now for that elaboration of my crazy…

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