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cubefoxtoday at 1:04 AM1 replyview on HN

For some reason the author's proposed lessons don't acknowledge the current elephant in the room.

> 2) Society uptake of transformative inventions is almost always slower than their proponents expect.

... except for LLMs.

> 3) Transformative technologies succeed by redesigning a task, and usually not by simply trying to reproduce the existing forms of human labor.

... except for LLMs.


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jrflowerstoday at 2:33 AM

Reading about a machine from one hundred and fifty years ago and getting progressively more and more upset that the writing doesn’t give sufficient praise to the real topic of every article, my lovely chat bot