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wilsonnb3yesterday at 11:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user


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snowmobileyesterday at 11:42 PM

It's different in the sense that LLMs are unpredictable and if you let them take arbitrary actions you don't know what's gonna happen, unlike any other program. A random generator doesn't "want" anything but putting it in control of steering my car is a bad idea.