Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wizzwizz4 725 days ago
(A less snarky reply:) LLMs and blockchains are both special-purpose tools that are almost completely useless for their best-known applications (virtual-assistants and cryptocurrency, respectively). The social behaviour surrounding them is way more relevant than the actual technologies, and I don't think it's tribalistic to acknowledge that.

People tried to use both as databases, put both in cars, invest in both. The vast majority of claims people make about them are just not evidenced, yet their hypist-adherents are so confident that they're willing to show you evidence that contradicts their claims, and call it "proof".

Yes, the actual technologies are very different. But nobody is actually paying attention to the technologies (an ignorance that my other comment snarkily accuses you of displaying here – I probably should've been kinder).