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mikkupikku • last Tuesday at 1:38 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Logical fallacies are vastly overrated. Unless the conversation is formal logic in the first place, "logical fallacies" are just a way to apply quick pattern matching to dismiss people without spending time on more substantive responses. In this case, both you and the other are speculating about the near future of a thing, neither of you knows.

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datsci_est_2015 • last Tuesday at 2:01 PM

Hard to make a more substantive response when the OP’s entire comment was a one-sentence logical fallacy. I’m not cherry-picking here.

> In this case, both you and the other are speculating about the near future of a thing, neither of you knows.

One of us is making a much grander claim than the other:

  - LLMs have limitless potential for growth; because they are not capable of something today does not mean they won’t be capable of it tomorrow
  - LLMs have fundamental limitations due to their underlying architecture and therefore are not limitless in capability
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graemep • last Tuesday at 2:12 PM

OK, its not a logical fallacy, its a false assumption.

The belief in the inevitability of progress is a bad assumption. Especially if you assume a particular technology will keep advancing.

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