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by yepyoukno 46 days ago
> plausibility is an acceptable substitute for empiricism

This is the most practical and realistic consideration mentioned.

“Voltaire rolls in his grave as his dream for an age of reason devolves into an age of orgiastic reasons.” - whoever

I’m pretty sure modern society prefers telling themselves stories about a thing more comfortably than comprehending the nature of such things.

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That’s got nothing at all to do with LLMs or “LLMorphism” though.
I meant as an observation of modern intellectual laziness which is encouraged by LLMs. I also didn’t intend to imply much else was to point!