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A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? I don’t get the analogy. I understand he’s talking about getting pushed around by an LLM, but woul

A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? I don’t get the analogy. I understand he’s talking about getting pushed around by an LLM, but would a normal centaur push an LLM around? It doesn’t even have any hands right? Seems like a reverse centaur is more capable of typing.

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probably_wrong 4mo ago
> A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? Well, no. A centaur is a normal person with stronger-than-human legs. That is, it's an augmented person who drives the powerful machinery underneath. Think of a person driving a car. A reverse centaur is the opposite, namely, a machine making the choices and a frail human following them. In this context, a reverse centaur is an AI spitting thousands of LOC for a human to find the good ones.
- toast0 4mo ago
  > A centaur is a normal person with stronger-than-human legs. Well also more numerous than human legs... And the whole two torsos thing https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Terracotta_lekythos_%28oil_flask%29_with_centaur_battling_a_warrior_MET_DP161810.jpg/960px-Terracotta_lekythos_%28oil_flask%29_with_centaur_battling_a_warrior_MET_DP161810.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Te...