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logicchainstoday at 4:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

You're learning to manage idiot savants, which is a very useful skill.


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saltcuredtoday at 5:11 PM

> You're learning to manage idiot savants, which is a very useful skill.

I think the real bifurcation is whether you will settle on that belief.

Some of us are settling on the belief that the idiot savant, lacking the coherence of a functional mind, cannot be managed. It's essentially a chaos agent masquerading as something more cooperative.

einpoklumtoday at 5:13 PM

The thing is, LLMs are more like the opposite: Sophisticated ignoramuses.