Theories, Narratives, Values

Theories - provable from first principles + data
Values - societal assumptions, partially grounded, but more established than narratives?
Narratives - subjective and based on experience, values, and other narratives
Theories are supposed to be universal
Narratives don’t need to be, just need to be useful for a group
Most valuable knowledge is narrative
LLMs and narrative, can they make subjective judgments?
Insight and credibility matter for building valuable narrative
Narratives are conceptual stepping stones
Narratives as framing of complex situation, narratives have volition
Narrative is why we have “I didn’t have the time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one”
Breath and focus are finite, facts alone are a waste, narratives are evolutionary?
Narratives as the FFN in transformers?
LLMs also use narratives to constrain the space of responses? Link
narratives as proteins? Eg sparse matches to enable complex narrative reasoning
Is thinking waking the narrative tree? BFS?
Are we just simulating the activity of the brain socially, doing all the same problem solving strategies, but with vocal etc communication bridging the literal neurons?
Clarity in characterizing a situation with as few details as possible
Narrative as the gradient (in a company, in life, etc) narratives as possible
narratives as kernel functions for the reward/progress space
Connection between bet making and narrative building and “you can’t plan greatness”
If survival in evolution is not an objective, is “why people do things” just survivorship bias?
Narratives as necessary stepping stones for groups to be compelled by ideas, systems, etc
What does it mean to want to build things? Is it art in expression, and fortunately useful? Is it better this way than utilitarian? Somewhere in between?
Narratives increase the range at which we recognize good bets
Objectiveless exploration plus abstraction is why open source rocks
Optionality is opportunity, as is freedom, low burn rate, etc