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LLM Inevitabilism

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1616 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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unraveller ◴[15 Jul 25 14:10 UTC] No.44571364[source]▶
It's more that big money going towards a clear and desirable endgame is a fairly sure thing. I choose to avoid lots of tech and I won't download the app but it's very hard to see how fighting a promising open tech like LLMs is the "pro-humanity" stance here.
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1. th0ma5 ◴[15 Jul 25 16:16 UTC] No.44572728[source]▶
There's to me a sole unimpeachable use case... Two SMEs of adjacent fields can work with an LLM SME to find overlaps in research. This is a manual slog of evaluating hints at patterns and holistically trying to discover something and the LLM is only a part of it. All of the other use cases I've heard of have some kind of religious undertone or assumption and leads to people wanting to make blanket summarizing statements to avoid digging into inconvenient realities.