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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 4 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.67s | source
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delichon ◴[15 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44567913[source]▶
If in 2009 you claimed that the dominance of the smartphone was inevitable, it would have been because you were using one and understood its power, not because you were reframing away our free choice for some agenda. In 2025 I don't think you can really be taking advantage of AI to do real work and still see its mass adaptation as evitable. It's coming faster and harder than any tech in history. As scary as that is we can't wish it away.
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NBJack ◴[15 Jul 25 05:00 UTC] No.44567951[source]▶
Ironically, this is exactly the technique for arguing that the blog mentions.

Remember the revolutionary, seemingly inevitable tech that was poised to rewrite how humans thought about transportation? The incredible amounts of hype, the secretive meetings disclosing the device, etc.? That turned out to be the self-balancing scooter known as a Segway?

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1. conradev ◴[15 Jul 25 06:33 UTC] No.44568442[source]▶
ChatGPT has something 300 million monthly users after less than three years and I don't think has Segway sold a million scooters, even though their new product lines are sick.

I can totally go about my life pretending Segway doesn't exist, but I just can't do that with ChatGPT, hence why the author felt compelled to write the post in the first place. They're not writing about Segway, after all.

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2. causal ◴[15 Jul 25 17:22 UTC] No.44573599[source]▶
Doubting LLMs because Segway was also trendy yet failed is so funny
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3. conradev ◴[15 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44574127[source]▶
Genuinely
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