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  • LLMs are only good in translation if the translation is being performed by a human familiar with both languages in the translation. They’re just as prone, after all, to hallucinating things that aren’t in the source text when doing translation as they are to hallucinating historical events or hallucinating cops turning into frogs. (Look it up!)

    I think that’s the bottom line for LLMs. They cannot be trusted as anything but expert tools for experts. In the hands of experts, who know the problem domain and thus can vet the results for accuracy, they can be speed amplifiers, removing the tedious drudgery from things. But in the hands of non-experts they are deceptively destructive.

    As seems to be the usual, people think LLMs are great for other problem domains, but not the ones they’re familiar with. It’s the old press problem. When the press reports on things you know, it’s inaccurate and terrible. When it reports on things you don’t know, it’s gospel. Same applies to LLMs. It’s just weird to me how everybody says it’s good for everything they don’t know much about, but never good for things they do.


  • Two problems with this statement, as much as I agree with most of the sentiment:

    1. It’s not “his money”. He finances himself entirely by debt. He’s living high off of other people’s money.

    2. It’s not even real money anyway. It’s debt based on stock, and stock valuation is almost entirely fantasy. If he were to start selling off his stock, that value would plummet to the point that his hundreds of billions would be in two-figure billions range instead (which is obscene enough!) … and he wouldn’t have enough money to pay off the debts he uses to finance his high life.









  • Spotted the clank-fucker.

    Riddle me this, clank-fucker: When fire was invented, did anybody need to be persuaded of its utility or did people generally kinda flock to this whole idea? When mobile phones were invented, did people have difficulty imagining a use for it?

    When people have to resort to desperate tactics like stuffing their technology into everything, whether it makes sense or not, in a bid to get users, this tells me that the technology has no uses that people can imagine. So clanks like the ones you enjoy fucking are more on the “blockchain” side of the technological fence and less on the “fire” side.

    You clank fucker.