Imagine the average person's skill at surgery. Now imagine if the government selects that the people who do surgery are the ones BELOW average. People would die. And people would say "Having no system would be better than this!" and the response would be "What, you want to live without surgeons?"

I've heard rumors that the teaching assistant is bisexual, which honestly made my stomach churn. I went to elementary school too, dumbasses. I know that "bi" means "two". As in, attracted to two different groups, children and adults. Unlike normal men who only get horny for adults. LGBTQ is a menace

I don't even like the alphabet, it's from the Middle East, just like Arabic numerals. Americans should have our own writing system. But I was willing to compromise! But nooo...

Yesterday I walked in to pick up my son and they were literally telling the kids "it's time to wake up". So blatant.

I told the professor that lessons about the "alphabet" would be a good time to sneak in some stuff about how to be an Alpha. Those topics naturally go together. But apparently that's too traditionally minded for the people running our schools. This is what my tax money is going to?

It happened a second time

the marketers then exploited people's notions that it'd work like the old system to sell the tech. They left out that the increase in flexibility was at the cost of precision. The pitch wasn't "less precision for more flexibility" it was "more flexibility! (the precision? don't worry about it)".

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Basically, we made highly consistent tech which could solve some problems. People got used to it and learned to expect that consistency. But this requirement for consistency of both input and output limited what it could do. So we made something more flexible, and less precise. The problem was,

I'm sure you know that. But I bring it up to make this point: I think the reason why people have faith in LLMs is because they're expecting the new tech to have this same type of consistency as the old tech. It had precision, if not accuracy. This is the "something about computers" you refer to.

(Barring hardware failure.) For another, old systems were built to follow a deterministic set of commands, getting the same answer each time. And if they don't have enough data to complete the algorithm, they just fail. Whereas LLMs are random, and guess the best they can based on incomplete data.

You're right that traditional computing isn't perfectly accurate. The floating point example is a good one that I hadn't thought of. But I still think there's a certain type of precision that traditional computing has which LLMs don't. For one, integers and logic are perfect within their domains.

Sorry

Julia Snrörer? Can I say that?

on the wall showing something trendy it's just a close-up of a slab of beef lol.

I think this image of a modern one is funny. Despite the name it looks just like any modern fast food restaurant I've seen, there's nothing Old-West in the architecture, except one neon sign / sheriff icon combo which is not supported by the rest of it, and most importantly instead of the painting