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troupotoday at 6:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

People keep saying that "models are just compilers, and I don't see you complsining about compilers". Which is such a bullshit argument


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vincstontoday at 12:17 PM

Can you elaborate? Is it because the models are inherently not deterministic? But then, will it not get better with time? I mean arent we just at the beginning of the research here?

lelanthrantoday at 9:37 AM

> People keep saying that "models are just compilers, and I don't see you complsining about compilers". Which is such a bullshit argument

At what point do we normalise the message "This is a stupid line of reasoning and you should feel stupid for suggesting it, stupid!"

I mean, all the reasoned and logical arguments in the world doesn't change a religious follower's faith, but emotive ones regularly work! At what point can we start using shaming language on people who apparently don't know how neither an LLM works nor how a compiler works, but still trot out this argument as a cognitive kill switch?