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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.678s | 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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p0w3n3d ◴[15 Jul 25 05:17 UTC] No.44568031[source]▶
Back in 1950s nuclear tech was seen as inevitable. Many people had even bought plates made from uranium glass. They still glow somewhere in my parents' cabinet or maybe I broke them
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1. moffkalast ◴[15 Jul 25 08:39 UTC] No.44569188[source]▶
Well there are like 500 nuclear powerplants online today supplying 10% of the world's power, so it wasn't too far off. Granted it's not the Mr. Fusion in every car as they imagined it back then. We probably also won't have ASI taking over the world like some kind of vengeful comic book villain as people imagine it today.
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2. eddythompson80 ◴[15 Jul 25 19:31 UTC] No.44574949[source]▶
Oh boy. People were expecting nuclear toothbrushes, nuclear school backpacks, nuclear stoves and nuclear fridges, nuclear grills, nuclear plates, nuclear medicine, nuclear sunglasses and nuclear airplanes.

Saying well, we got 500 nuclear power plants is like saying “well, we got excellent `npx create-app` style templates from AI. That’s pretty huge impact. I don’t know a single project post 2030 that didn’t start as an AI scaffolded project. That’s pretty huge dude”

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3. moffkalast ◴[16 Jul 25 08:58 UTC] No.44580158[source]▶
Ngl I do feel a bit robbed about those toothbrushes, where's my uranium battery sonicare that never needs to charge?