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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. maz1b ◴[15 Jul 25 05:35 UTC] No.44568126[source]▶
It seems to me from a cursory glance of the blog post that because certain notable humans / individuals are "framing" the modern AI/ML (LLM) era in a more inevitable way, which I totally get, but isn't that how human life works?

The majority of humans will almost always take the path of least resistance, whether it's cognition, work (physics definition), effort. LLMs are just another genie out of the bottle that will enable some certain subset of the population to use the least amount of energy to accomplish certain tasks, whether for good or bad.

Even if we put the original genie back in the bottle, someone else will copy/replicate/rediscover it. Take WhatsApp locked secret passphrase chats as an example - people (correctly) found that it would lead to enabling cheaters. Even if WhatsApp walked it back, someone else would create a new kind of app just for this particular functionality.

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2. jruohonen ◴[15 Jul 25 06:20 UTC] No.44568367[source]▶
> certain subset of the population to use the least amount of energy to accomplish certain tasks, whether for good or bad.

Something along these lines, maybe. It is interesting to see what happens to quality in basically anything, including engineering. I expect more and more sketchy and easily breaking things.