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  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGet. Out
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    15 days ago

    It doesn’t reason, and it doesn’t actually know any information.

    What it excels at is giving plausible sounding averages of texts, and if you think about how little the average person knows you should be abhorred.

    Also, where people typically can reason enough to make the answer internally consistent or even relevant within a domain, LLMs offer a polished version of the disjointed amalgamation of all the platitudes or otherwise commonly repeated phrases in the training data.

    Basically, you can’t trust the information to be right, insightful or even unpoisoned, while sabotaging your strategies and systems to sift information from noise.

    EtA: All for the low low cost of personal computing, power scarcity and drought.










  • Start July/August 2026. End 2033

    Trump has only a few months left before the dementia makes it too hard to Weekend at Bernie the presidency. In the aftermath there will be a power struggle where Miller’s faction will rush to do something stupid to preempt the christofascist faction’s bid at pogroms/civil war.

    The war will escalate for the first two-three years as the larger players gear up for war, and then grind on for another 4 years as smaller players drop out, leaving China and a ragged coalition to peace out.