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makerofthingstoday at 3:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

Here's my conjecture. Large Language Models are the great filter. They represent a local maximum in the technological advancement of a species from which we will not escape.


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zerotolerancetoday at 5:05 PM

On the other hand here we have an amateur that could accelerate their learning and experimentation faster than ever possible before.

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Joel_Mckaytoday at 3:48 PM

People will just limit publishing valid works to avoid becoming a hapless plagiarism victim class. Same thing happened to tech bloggers ripped off by low-effort you-tube content makers.

Isomorphic plagiarism makes people feel 23% smarter, but it also provably degrades core skills by 17%.

LLM are great at context search, but are also trivially proven degenerative under recursive self improvement scenarios. We look forwards to stripping their assets at a heavy discount.

Also, we shouldn't kink shame peoples cognitive dildo choices. =3