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by foxes 105 days ago
But thats the point, an llm is a vastly different object to a calculator. Its a new type of tool for better or worse based on probabilities, distributions.

If you can internalise that fact and look at it like having a probable answer rather than an exact answer it makes sense.

Calculators cant have a stab at writing an entire c compiler. A lot of people cant either or takes a lot of iteration anyway, no one one shotted complicated code before llms either.

I feel discussion shouldnt be about how they work as the fundamental objection, rather the costs and impacts they have.