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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

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509 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source

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z7 ◴[02 Sep 25 17:10 UTC] No.45105954[source]▶
An encyclopaedia is a lossy representation of reality.
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1. utyop22 ◴[02 Sep 25 23:49 UTC] No.45110608[source]▶
I would argue language in general is. Encylopaedia's are just a hard medium to transmit it.