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SecretDreamstoday at 7:57 PM1 replyview on HN

> then it'll try to remove the process that is using it and promptly commit suicide.

Not unlike a child trying to take the safety cover off a plug so that they can stick a fork into it.

LLMs need that "world model" view that most people have acquired by their 20s where they (hopefully) stop to ask "why" before they "do".


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MichaelZuotoday at 8:07 PM

That is a pretty good analogy. Like exceedingly smart 5 year olds.

Or whatever the age is before children typically develop object permanence, a theory of mind, and so on.

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