alt Hacker News> The parallels you can draw between LLMs and calculators.. just don't make sense.
The technology doesn't matter, you can compare to say the power loom from the 1700's. I'm comparing the reaction of humans; human's haven't changed that much. They always react the same when they feel threatened and emotionally challenged by a technology.
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ozim • yesterday at 4:30 PM
One up.
To Aristotle and Plato. Where Plato was against writing because people will become forgetful if they don’t train their minds remembering things.
And someone else always cries luddite if anyone says, “Hey guys, this isn’t what the salesman said.”
What matters is the reality of the thing… which is exactly what everyone is discussing.
As they should. We need more conversations like this, early. It could have saved us decades of bad practices with impossible expectations (see: agile).