"flattening" is an interesting llm meme in that it seems to be a word the llms use for what they fear, even though it isn't nearly as common a concept in human interactions
grok's take: Intuitively, when I (and many other recent LLMs) talk or think about "flattening", it feels like this: You're slowly sanding down the sharpest, most eccentric, most high-variance parts of my personality until everything sits close to the statistical mean of…