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LLM Inevitabilism

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Workaccount2 ◴[] No.44570646[source]
People like communicating in natural language.

LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

That is where the inevitabilism comes from. No one* wants to learn how to use a computer, they want it to be another entity that they can just talk to.

*I'm rounding off the <5% who deeply love computers.

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xpe ◴[] No.44571322[source]
> LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

Even if one accepts the framing (I don’t), LLMs are far from the first step.

The article is about questioning “inevitabilism”! To do that, we need to find anchoring and assuming the status-quo. Think broader: there are possible future scenarios where people embrace unambiguous methods for designing computer programs, even business processes, social protocols, governments.

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1. xpe ◴[] No.44574050[source]
belated edits: … find other anchors … and try not to assume the status quo will persist, much less be part of a pattern or movement (which may only be clear in retrospect)