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LLM’s are nice. But if push came to shove, we could very easily continue on without them, or without them involved in every aspect. Being able to write cutesy
by FridgeSeal 4mo ago
LLM’s are nice. But if push came to shove, we could very easily continue on without them, or without them involved in every aspect.
Being able to write cutesy SaaS apps faster is neat, but not like, essential, the way water is.
- fragmede 4mo agoIf that's all you're using LLMs for, you've definitely fallen behind.
- FridgeSeal 4mo agoI like how “you’ve fallen behind” is the ai version of “you’re not gonna make it” from the crypto-bro days.
- aspenmartin 4mo agoMy favorite part is how people compare AI to crypto as if they are remotely in the same universe of importance and impact
- aspenmartin 4mo agoLLMs are a “nice to have” blows my mind. LLMs power autonomous drones that kill real people in real wars. Coding agents are the primary way people code. That and we get a GPT4->5 jump every 18 months. Are we on the same planet?
- garte 4mo agoLLMs conduct strikes on children which a human may not have done. so wow, you got a frontier model but you lost something there in the process.
- aspenmartin 4mo agoWhy are we missing the point here: LLMs are of major geopolitical significance. Autonomous drones kill children, now what? Would you rather have a home grown frontier model capability to defend yourself? Or would you prefer to rely on the good graces of tech CEOs?
- throwaway-blaze 4mo agoI think the EU would prefer wars not happen and that they never have to think about defending their borders or themselves. This is fantasy land, but the cafes and museums and old city squares are gorgeous.
- garte 4mo agoThis polemic is quite sad. Wars are only cool in movies. And - apparently - in US politics. The reason the EU shirks talking about war is because it actually lived through it. And it wasn't cool. The US is waging wars far from their borders (of which they all lost since about 50 years) while the topic in the EU is self defence within their borders, that's a different ball game. A third of the US economy is propped up by waging wars. That's not even being imperialistic that's just a very costly and damaging social service program that costs a lot of lives.