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tossandthrowyesterday at 8:03 PM1 replyview on HN

> That sentiment makes me cringe. If you understand how LLMs work, you'd know

> But not in the "I'd love to learn more" kind

I hope you are able to see the problem in your own communication here.

Computation classes are interesting because they say something about fundamental capabilities.

Two machine that are Turing complete are in theory able to carry out the same computations. They are isomorph mediums of computation.

Regardless. Please keep it sober. If you think you know something, enlighten us. But don't just propagate out lies.


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okamiueruyesterday at 8:14 PM

The thing about discussing or explaining constraints, is that it rarely is useful or productive if the other side does not accept (or understand) the reality of them.

Turing completeness is not exactly a high bar, and it's genuinely confusing as to why you bring it up. Your C++ precompiler is exactly as intelligent as whatever is your favorite agentic workflow with whatever harness you're referring to. Both might be Turing complete. Neither are intelligent. But one of them seems to be fooling you to think otherwise.

There have been many times that the C++ precompiler produced some output I couldn't understand. I might even at some point thought it was trying to tell me something profound I was too dumb to comprehend. Turns out it was just a missing semicolon.

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