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bee_ridertoday at 5:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

We shouldn’t try to build a worse version of a human. We should try to build a better compiler and encyclopedia.


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logicprogtoday at 6:01 PM

We tried that. It was called Cyc. It never got even close to the level of capabilities a modern LLM has in an agentic harness — even on common sense and reasoning problems!

GolfPoppertoday at 5:22 PM

That sounds like a "get wealthy slowly" plan, while the LLM prophets are more focused on "get rich quick".