Iβve been reflecting on how π¨π° ππππππ built on large language models communicate, not with 0s and 1s but through tokens, hinting at a quiet shift in how information behaves.
π‘ For decades, the πππ was the indivisible unit of information: binary, context-free, and precise. But as autonomous agents reason and converse, the πππππ seems to have become a new kind of ππππππ ππππ, one that carries meaning rather than just state.
Tokens are probabilistic, contextual, and relational. When agents βtalk,β they do not simply exchange data; they negotiate intent, knowledge, and belief through the medium of language.
This changes everything. Information flow is no longer purely computational; it isβ¦ππππππππππππ(!)
Systems are evolving from pipelines of data into ππππππππ ππ πππ πππππππ πππ, wβ¦
Iβve been reflecting on how π¨π° ππππππ built on large language models communicate, not with 0s and 1s but through tokens, hinting at a quiet shift in how information behaves.
π‘ For decades, the πππ was the indivisible unit of information: binary, context-free, and precise. But as autonomous agents reason and converse, the πππππ seems to have become a new kind of ππππππ ππππ, one that carries meaning rather than just state.
Tokens are probabilistic, contextual, and relational. When agents βtalk,β they do not simply exchange data; they negotiate intent, knowledge, and belief through the medium of language.
This changes everything. Information flow is no longer purely computational; it isβ¦ππππππππππππ(!)
Systems are evolving from pipelines of data into ππππππππ ππ πππ πππππππ πππ, where the integrity of meaning may soon matter as much as the integrity of bits once did.
It raises deep questions:
β’ How do we define entropy when the messageβs value depends on shared context rather than probability?
β’ What happens when πππππππππ, not compression, becomes the key optimization goal?
β’ Are we seeing the beginnings of a new information theory, one where meaning itself becomes measurable?
And yet, I canβt help but wonder if this new βinformation currencyβ is the endgame or just a phaseβ¦ As multimodal reasoning deepens, weaving language with vision, space, and embodiment, information itself may evolve again toward richer, multidimensional units.
Perhaps this will ultimately bring us full circle, back to the substrate of computation (to bits, or even qubits) but this time infused with the semantics of thought�
Of course, tokens may just be the visible layer of a deeper substrate. Beneath them lie the πππππ π ππππ: high-dimensional fields where meaning takes shape not as symbols but as geometry. If tokens are the visible colors of language, embeddings are the spectrum beneath (the full range of meaning our eyes canβt see directly but that shapes what appears). Perhaps the real revolution isnβt in the shift from bits to tokens, but in the emergence of these ππππππππ ππππππππ π β where information begins to resemble understanding.
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