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LLM Inevitabilism

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1611 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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JimmaDaRustla ◴[15 Jul 25 13:50 UTC] No.44571157[source]▶
The author seems to imply that the "framing" of an argument is done so in bad faith in order to win an argument but only provides one-line quotes where there is no contextual argument.

This tactic by the author is a straw-man argument - he's framing the position of tech leaders and our acceptance of it as the reason AI exists, instead of being honest, which is that they were simply right in their predictions: AI was inevitable.

The IT industry is full of pride and arrogance. We deny the power of AI and LLMs. I think that's fair, I welcome the pushback. But the real word the IT crowd needs to learn is "denialism" - if you still don't see how LLMs is changing our entire industry, you haven't been paying attention.

Edit: Lots of denialists using false dichotomy arguments that my opinion is invalid because I'm not producing examples and proof. I guess I'll just leave this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/

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1. bwfan123 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:15 UTC] No.44572035[source]▶
The "framing" is a tactic called "assuming the sale" - where statements are made as-if they are already true and the burden is placed on the other side to negate. Combine that with other tactics like fomo, scarcity, and authority and you will have people practically begging for these tools. As an example..

"Edison of our times Elon Musk (authority) believes that the AI agents are the future (assuming the sale), and most developers are already using it to improve productivity (fomo, social-proof). MCP agents are in short supply due to tariff driven bottlenecks, so buy them while supplies last (scarcity)".

This sort of influencing is accelerated by social-media, and is all around us, and short-circuits critical-thinking in most of us.