[andrewflnr]

One person's ignorance of something can never be evidence that it doesn't exist. It's far too easy to be willfully ignorant; no one can force you to abandon ignorance if you don't want to.

On the other hand, the hype of "Sam Altman and his like" being plainly exaggerated doesn't mean there's nothing at all behind it. It's plain to see there's something important about LLM capabilities. I don't even use them myself, as emotionally I find them entirely repugnant, and I can still see that.

We need to wait to get the whole story about LLMs, but we don't need to wait to confidently reject both extremes of opinion about them.