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Size of Life

(neal.fun)
2530 points eatonphil | 5 comments | 10 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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milancurcic ◴[10 Dec 25 17:03 UTC] No.46220264[source]▶
Neal delivers. I recently learned that viruses are not considered living being, but I'm nevertheless happy they're included here because they're both relevant and interesting in this context.
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1. cainxinth ◴[10 Dec 25 17:13 UTC] No.46220389[source]▶
Viruses are to life as LLMs are to reasoning: they often behave like their category expects but not for the same reasons as the genuine article.
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2. seemaze ◴[10 Dec 25 17:16 UTC] No.46220440[source]▶
..er, a parasitic threat to life and happiness that become an endemic drag on global well being?
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3. paddleon ◴[10 Dec 25 17:18 UTC] No.46220465[source]▶
as a former virologist, I love the thought that LLMs are the virus of reasoning :)
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4. graybeardhacker ◴[10 Dec 25 20:16 UTC] No.46223126[source]▶
Once a virologist always a virologist I always say.
5. tock ◴[11 Dec 25 06:31 UTC] No.46228313[source]▶
Every other living organism looking at human beings: yeah.