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Where is the creativity? Are we doomed to solve every problem, technological, social, and political with an LLM now? Is this the slow descent into Idiocracy?
Trends come and go. The stories and comments come and go. HN is constantly changing. You can’t attach yourself to how something was before. It will change again.
Thats just life.
We gotta put AI Blockchain in the Metaverse!
Yes. The hype, lies and more lies.
The LLM posts that get upvoted on HN tend to be demos, learnings, and open-source projects: the complete opposite of the baseless hype.
Silicon Valley is full of techno-religious, socially awkward people trying to find God in technology. AGI promises to understand them in a way normies never could. A dream that will never happen, just like proof in God is impossible... but people believe anyways. Hope in finding an answer to the unanswerable. The human brain processes information in narrative form, lovers of a good story are the ones most enamored wi…
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> For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been. Same here, for sure. I just try to dodge it all as best I can. Seems like every question has the possible answer of LLMs, and nearly always, someone provides it.
There's also this annoying dissonance between 'evangelists' and reality. Evangelists often feign that we're on the cusp of artificial general intelligence, while in practice LLMs remain stupid, error prone, and unreliable for anything beyond tasks that have a vast number sources for highly relevant training. Which also somewhat dilutes the utility, because I could just as well find those sources! Oh right, that must…
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The LLM posts that get upvoted on HN tend to be demos, learnings, and open-source projects: the complete opposite of the baseless hype.
But then the comments are a deluge of breathless hype about "agi" and "changing the world". Just like it was for the fake internet money people--decentralized banking is gonna change everything!!!11oneeleven .
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But then the comments are a deluge of breathless hype about "agi" and "changing the world". Just like it was for the fake internet money people--decentralized banking is gonna change everything!!!11oneeleven .
On Hacker News, those get downvoted very quickly.