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How in the world can a bunch of bipeds that for thousands of years has been failing to figure that a hammer is there to drive nails into inanimate matter instead of their heads, have this much hubris to pretend they can build something smarter than themselves, is competely beyond me.

"Oh it's such a fascinating lesson that we've learned today, we could've learned from history of course, but this direct experience is so much better and it's not us who got hurt anyway".



Cold reading.[1] One way I look at LLMs is that they're a kind of paperclip maximer, one that uses language to maximize the amount of money (resources) put into LLMs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading


Oh what hubris to believe with such certainty that we cannot build those things.


Hopium to the rescue.




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