Windex007

I think I understand your point now.

I still would want to apply pressure to it, because i disagree with the spirit of your assessment.

Once a model is trained, they become functionally opaque. Weights shift... but WHY. What does that vector MEAN.

I think wrenches are good. Will a 12mm wrench fit a 12mm bolt? Yes.

In LLM bizarre world, the answer to everything is not "yes" or "no", it's "maybe, maybe not, within statistical bounds... try it... maybe it will... maybe it won't... and by the way just because it fit yesterday is no guarantee it will fit again tomorrow... and I actually can't definitively tell you why that is for this particular wrench"

LLMs do something, and I agree they do that something well. I further agree with the spirit of most of the rest of your analysis: abstraction layers are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I think where I fundamentally disagree is that "they do what they say they do" by any definition beyond the simple tautology that everything is what it is.

Yeah. You vibe with the OT but not so much with the NT?

That's fine. Just be Jewish.

Hence my attempt to give you the space to provide clarity.

For me, this isn't a pissing contest. I'm trying to provide you with the latitude to clarify your position. I'll be honest, I didn't appreciate your condescending lecture on the english language.

I love that humans are inclined to anthropamorphize things. A door can't be sad. A street can't be lonely. The moon can't be wistful. The ocean can't be angry.

But they can... in our heads. And that's real for us.

I think that, at least at a societal level, this part of the human condition has been mostly benign. Just a little bit of spice.

LLMs seem to have short circuited that part in our brains. We can't even describe errata of a system without anthropamorphizing it

Honestly, I think it's as simple as those are just the 5 largest metro centers in Canada.

Ok, well, I was actively trying to avoid jumping to the conclusion that your assertion was that an LLM can tell you what it does.

I was actively avoiding that conclusion as an act of charity.

You keep asserting they do exactly what they say they do.

Who is "they"

It's so jarring to me to hear a sentence structured like that, and I can put my finger on why. It sounds like it was written by Charlie Kelly.

You had me up until your first sentence.

Alberta is where the resistance is coming from. There are more offices in Ontario than Alberta.

It's an interesting take, to be sure, obviously it remains to be seen. I just would expect the deployment strategy to somehow favour AB if that was the goal.

Because I don't understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence

The art is good. Beyond the entertainment value, it's a way to understand the zeitgeist of the era... you can watch it even from an anthropological perspective. It stings a little to admit that im old enough that periods of my own life could be studied from the standpoint of a historical science, but, that's just how she goes.

Several of the actors ended up being gigantic pieces of shit. While I think it's worth accepting that truth, I think the hard reality is that material success and any meaningful period of public reverence does that to a person. Any media you enjoy now, the reality is that the actors are probably pieces of shit too and it just hasn't come out yet... and again, that's just how she goes.