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I think this is a great line: > My fear is that LLM generated code will look great to me, I won't understand it fully but it will work This is a degree of humi
by intended 2y ago
I think this is a great line:
> My fear is that LLM generated code will look great to me, I won't understand it fully but it will work
This is a degree of humility that made the scenario we are in much clearer.
Our information environment got polluted by the lack of such humility. Rhetoric that sounded ‘right’ is used everywhere. If it looks like an Oxford Don, sounds like an Oxford Don, then it must be an academic. Thus it is believable, even if they are saying the Titanic isn’t sinking.
Verification is the heart of everything humanity does, our governance structures, our judicial systems, economic systems, academia, news, media - everything.
It’s a massive computation effort to figure out what the best ways to allocate resources given current information, allowing humans to create surplus and survive.
This is why we dislike monopolies, or manipulations of these markets - they create bad goods, and screw up our ability to verify what is real.