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by cainxinth 193 days ago
Viruses are to life as LLMs are to reasoning: they often behave like their category expects but not for the same reasons as the genuine article.
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as a former virologist, I love the thought that LLMs are the virus of reasoning :)
Once a virologist always a virologist I always say.
..er, a parasitic threat to life and happiness that become an endemic drag on global well being?
Every other living organism looking at human beings: yeah.