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by pruetj 849 days ago
> It really shows that asking a computer for something is fundamentally a bad idea

No, that is not what it shows at all. Everything you do on a computer is "asking a computer for something." Do you think computers are computing things that no one asked for?

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They're computing things they've precisely been programmed to compute. Number crunching, in the end, with extremely low error rates caused by hardware faults. LLM error rates are comparatively astronomical.