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> Also, humans are not deterministic either. Indeed, and that's why so few dare to migrate them, and so many who do fail or blow the budget many times over. I think that was the im…

Yes. And I know I can’t see it and don’t pretend I can, and that it in fact is green.

So LLMs don’t know the alphabet and its rules?

Your explanation perfectly captures another big differences between human / mammal intelligence and LLM intelligence: A child can make mistakes and (few shot) learn. A LLM can’t. A…

I think we’re saying the same thing using different words. What LLMs do and what human brains do are very different things. Therefore human / biological intelligence is a different…

Yes, actually I think it works really well for me considering that I’m not a native speaker and one thing I’m after is correcting technical correct but non-idiomatic wording.

I mostly use Gemini 2.5 Pro. I have a “you are my editor” prompt asking it to proofread my texts. Recently it pointed out two typos in two different words that just weren’t there. …

I have to say, I'm a little bit proud of myself that their approach comes close to what I consider a good method for building software with LLMs: https://markus.oberlehner.net/blog…

It seems logical, but still, my experience is the complete opposite. I think that it is an inherent problem with the technology. "Upgrade from Library v4 to Library v5" probably he…

> A universal aspect of every human culture is a taboo against killing. Exactly! It's taboo. It's morally wrong. It's unethical. But does it make it unnatural? It's taboo to talk a…

Yet somehow ~70 million died during WWII, curious.

I agree with your points, and how I interpret "natural" has nothing to do with how often an individual does something. Many humans drive their cars every day. Does this make it a n…

> commonly-held idea that killing is an 'unnatural' act for humans People killing people is one of the better-documented aspects of human history. If it's really a commonly-held id…