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scrollawaytoday at 10:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

You don’t know anything either, you’re just a soup of meat and bones that happens to have emergent properties from chemical reactions.

These framings are not useful.


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NothingAboutAnytoday at 10:21 AM

I think it is useful to remember, because enough people think these things have genuine motives desires and treat them in that way because of that misunderstanding. they think theres a person in there with morals that would or wouldn't lie because of some devious reason and forget simply the context filled up and the truth was "forgotten".

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Marazantoday at 12:21 PM

No, it is really useful to know how a technology works. LLMs work by predicting next tokens.

It is _amazing_ the utility they have given that that is what they are and they are highly useful but suggesting solutions that ignore they are spicy auto-complete is counterproductive on many different levels.