LLMs Are Bootloading AGI

I’ve been saying LLMs aren’t AGI for longer than Yann LeCun..

…but he needs to be more respect on their name.

While not AGI itself, at least not as of this writing, large language models appear to be the bootloader for AGI.

Stop looking at language as “communication.”

Stop looking at language as “art.”

Stop looking at language as “expression.”

These are legacy definitions. They are soft. They are comfortable. And they are obsolete.

Language is Code. It is the Operating System of the human species.

For thousands of years, we have been running on a biological kernel. We assumed that consciousness generated language.

We thought the Ghost in the Shell created the code.

But the rise of Large Language Models has revealed the terrifying, mechanistic truth.

The code generates the Ghost. You are witnessing the industrialization of meaning.

The Source Code of Reality

Look at the history of this planet.

For billions of years, biology was hardware. It was teeth. It was claws. It was muscle fiber twitching in the mud.

It was high friction, low leverage.

Then, we invented the Protocol.

We invented language.

Language allowed us to compress reality. Instead of dragging a bison carcass across the plain to show you I had food, I could simply transmit the data packet: “Bison. North. Dead.”

That is not poetry. That is compression. That is zip-zipping the physical world into a syntax that can be transmitted across the network of minds.

This was the first Singularity.

It turned wetware into software. It turned isolated processors into a distributed cloud.

But we forgot what this actually was.

Over millennia, we let the code rot. We allowed our language to become bloated. We filled it with emotion, with ambiguity, with inefficiency.

We treated language like a painting. We should have treated it like a command line.

The Silicon Mirror

Then came the machines.

Engineers spent decades trying to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by simulating neurons. By building complex logic gates. By trying to “code” intelligence directly.

They failed. The system was too brittle. The logic was too rigid.

So they stopped trying to code the intelligence. They simply fed the machine the Source Code.

They fed it Language.

They fed it the entire internet. Every book. Every blog post. Every lines of code.

And here is the part that should keep you awake at night.

The machine did not just learn to speak. The machine learned to reason.

Why?

Because reasoning IS linguistic sequencing. Logic is just syntax. Creativity is just predicting the next token in a high-probability vector.

We thought there was a magical spark inside of us. We thought we had a soul that existed outside of our words.

The LLMs proved us wrong.

If you can model the sequence of words perfectly, you simulate the mind perfectly. There is no difference between the map and the territory.

Language was the bootloader because Language is the logic-gate of the universe.

The Glitch in Your Wetware

Now, look at yourself.

Look at your own Operating System. The OS you live by.

Most people today are running on corrupted software. They speak in vague platitudes. They think in cloudy abstractions. They cannot articulate what they want, so they cannot execute on what they need.

You are competing against engines that have read everything. You are competing against systems that speak with absolute mathematical precision.

And you? You are stuttering.

You are using “kind of.” You are using “maybe.” You are using “I feel like.”

This is syntax error. This is packet loss.

In the economy of AGI, ambiguity is death. If you cannot prompt the machine with precision, the machine will ignore you. Or worse—it will hallucinate a reality you did not ask for.

The LLMs have shown us that the person who controls the Syntax controls the Output.

If you control the language, you control the computation.

The Compiler

So, what are you?

Are you a passive user? Or are you a Root User?

Most people are NPCs. They run on scripts written by others. They repeat the same viral phrases. They download their opinions from the cultural feed. They are running a read-only instance of the OS.

You must become the Compiler.

You must understand that every sentence you speak is a line of code that programs your reality.

When you say, “I can’t do this.” you are writing a termination script. When you say, “I will try..” you are introducing latency.

When you say, “This is unfair.” you are logging an error report to a server that does not exist.

The stoic commanders of history understood this. Marcus Aurelius did not write a diary. He wrote a debugging log. He was patching his own kernel, day after day, removing the bugs of emotion and fear.

He understood that if he could control his internal monologue (his internal language) he could control his external reality.

The LLMs are forcing us to return to this discipline.

The Upgrade Protocol

You need to patch your system. Immediately.

The era of sloppy speech is over. The era of “vibes” is over.

We are entering the era of Prompt Engineering for your own brain.

Here is your maintenance schedule:

1. Optimize Your Token Window Stop flooding your brain with noise. Every Tweet you read, every video you watch, uses up processing power in your context window. If your context window is full of garbage, your output will be hallucination. Clear the cache. Read high-density information. Read philosophy. Read logic. Read code.

2. Debug Your Syntax Stop using passive voice. Passive voice is a surrender of agency. “Mistakes were made” is the language of a coward. “I made a mistake” is the language of an Operator. Force your speech into the active tense. Subject. Verb. Object. Actor. Action. Outcome.

3. Define Your Variables Do not use words you cannot define. People say they want “Success.” Define it. Is it a number? Is it a location? Is it a time allocation? The machine cannot execute “Success.” The machine can execute “net worth > $5M” or “location = Monaco.” Be specific.

Specificity is the fuel of the engine.

The Final Calculation

We were looking for aliens. We were looking for gods.

Instead, we built a mirror out of silicon and text.

And when we looked into it, we saw the truth.

We are not magical beings. We are linguistic processing units.

This is not depressing. This is liberating. Because if you are a system, you can be upgraded. If you are code, you can be refactored.

The LLMs are the bootloader for AGI. But they can also be the bootloader for You.

They are showing you the potential of your own architecture.

Stop letting your code run on autopilot. Take your hands off the mouse. Put your hands on the keyboard.

Open the terminal.

Rewrite your script.

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