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The article boils down (pun intended) to, “you already accept all these things which I am glossing as basically instant mashed potatoes, so you should also acce
by TimorousBestie 10mo ago
The article boils down (pun intended) to, “you already accept all these things which I am glossing as basically instant mashed potatoes, so you should also accept LLMs.”
That’s why they not-so-subtly start calling them IMPs when they introduce the “abstracted version.”
It’s not merely an example. It’s the thesis of the article.
EDIT: Out of perversity, I skimmed the comments. The audience of Astral Codex Ten seems to share this interpretation, for whatever that’s worth.
- ameliaquining 10mo agoI read the post as pretty clearly anti-LLM (and anti-instant-mashed-potatoes).