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by smogcutter 250 days ago
This is a good point as a tangent. “Cargo Cult” is a meaningful phrase for ritualizing a process without understanding it.

Debasing the phrase makes it less useful and informative.

It’s a cargo cult usage of “cargo cult”!

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Isn't the entire point of an LLM to "ritualize" language without understanding a word of it?