ryanklee

The saltines is basically inappropriate.

The problem is with the person, not the tool. Get rid of people who can't think critically, replace them with people who can.

And I didn't suggest how to do so. I implied that there is an issue with the quality of their coworkers, not ChatGPT.

That sounds to me less of an issue with ChatGPT, and more with having colleagues that don't understand how to engage in reasonable discussion or evaluate information correctly.

What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.

I don't understand what you're pushing back against, but I'm not standing there.

I assumed it was in reference to llama.cpp. It's a weak assumption, though.

It's an LLM technology that allows certain models to run on CPUs rather than big beefy GPUs. Makes running locally viable for consumers.

Again, I acknowledge that citations have value and are important and desirable as a feature of how we communicate.

But citations did not begin their rise a standard until the 1900s. The idea that knowledge production was not valuable until that point is absurd.

Further, citations do not prevent statements from being incorrect. They are sometimes used to lend credence to bullshit.

We live all at once in a world full of citations and of epistemic chaos.

Do I want LLMs to cite sources? Absolutely. But it's not the fundamental path to value people seem to sometimes think.

Imagine being an actual woman and having to deal with this bullshit all the fucking time. I have no idea how the hell they do it. Must be low-level torture.

I didn't ignore it. But we do not require citations for every statement. Statements have value, citations notwithstanding.

I don't have a position on that, and there's not one implied by my comment, which is why I am unsure why the commenter assumes one.

This is not correct. You can get an LLM to improve reasoning through iteration and interrogation. By changing the content in its context window you can evolve a conversation quite nicely and get elaborated explanations, reversals of opinions, etc.

There is a ton of arrogance everywhere on this subject. Anyone who doesn't see how complicated and nuanced and difficult figuring out what the hell is going on here really needs to sit down and think a little more carefully. There's absolutely no room for out-of-hand dismissal. We are all babes in the woods right now. We need each other, like always.