▲ | nothrabannosir 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Maybe the people raving about LLM progress are the same people holding them to those high standards? I don’t see what’s inconsistent about it. “Due to this latest amazing algorithm, the robots keep scoring goals. What do we do? Let’s move them back a bit!” Seems like a normal way of thinking to me… I see people fawn over technical progress every day. What are they supposed to do, stop updating their expectations and never expect any more progress? It could of course be that there are people who “never give it up for the robots”. Or maybe they do, and they did, and they have so fully embraced the brave new world that they’re talking about what’s next. I mean, when I sit in a train I don’t spend half the ride saying “oh my god this is incredible, big thanks to whoever invented the wheel. So smooth!” Even though maybe I should :) | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | brookst 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I mean, when I sit in a train I don’t spend half the ride saying “oh my god this is incredible, big thanks to whoever invented the wheel. So smooth!” Two thoughts: - In that context, neither do you expect people to be invested in why the train is nothing special, it’s basically a horse cart, etc, etc - And maybe here’s where I’m weird: I often am overcome by the miracle of thousands of tons of metal hurtling along at 50 - 200mph, reliably, smoothly enough to work or eat, many thousands of times a day, for pennies per person per mile. I mean, I’ll get sucked in to how the latches to release the emergency windows were designed and manufactured at scale despite almost none of them ever being used. But maybe that’s just me. | |||||||||||||||||
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