If you hate LLMs, there's hope

[dragonforge-dev]

@pauldrewett

I think hating on LLMs is a mistake.

I admit that was a clickbait topic.

@pauldrewett

But even given all that, LLMs are not evil nor good. They are a tool. You may as well feel hatred towards a hammer.

You can’t separate out how the tool is made and used, the people who use it and the way they use it, and then put the tool on its own blameless pedestal. Sure, LLMs have no will of their own, but how they affect the world matters.

Comparing LLMs to calculators or hammers is what’s know as a false equivalence logical fallacy.

Hammers are not made with a disproportionate number of resources to all comparable tools. They are not made by stealing the work of carpenters and not compensating them for it. They have not caused layoffs because a hammer can do the job of 10 carpenters. They are not used to replace screwdrivers.

@phoenixdk

Judging by how many people prefer actual junk food slop to real food, I think it’s safe to assume that there will always be people who prefer convenience to quality.

I think this is a simplification of the fact that a lot of people can only afford junk food. If you look at the hoops fast food companies are jumping through to keep poor people buying food, you can see how they are not because it’s too expensive now. So I think it’s least common denominator.