Beej Jorgensen

Why not so being obtuse and just tell me what you mean by “fact” and I’ll tell you if I use LLMs for that or not?

Look, if I had a magic button that eliminated LLMs from the planet, I’d have already pressed it. About the best I can do is keep losing Anthropic money with every prompt I give. Hopefully they crash out and we can all run local models once RAM gets cheap enough to buy.

But the fact is that LLMs are actually useful for getting to accurate answers more quickly than slogging through SEO crap, much of which was written by LLMs anyway.

Current models are completely incapable of fact checking, despite any claims they may make.

This is demonstrably false. Ask it to find the bugs in a chunk of code, for example. You can try that right now.

You always have to back up what it says with an authoritative source, but that’s not particularly tough to do once you have a candidate answer. And if it’s code, you compile it.

It’s arguably far easier than trying to sift through the mountains of SEO shit yourself.

Well, it’s hardly the only place I learn things. But if you can verify a fact that an LLM gives you, it’s still a fact.

Another fact: there’s a pile of human shit out there, too. So you get the truth by hook or by crook.

When we said “Rescue the environment”, we meant “Make a much money as possibly at any cost”. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I’m a university instructor and I definitely use AI to help learn material. But I write all the student-facing material by hand. And I use LLMs to check my work for errors, directing it to never offer a rewrite.

I want to know if it’s AI that’s the real problem here or the world in which we’re forcing kids to live.

My money’s on “both”.

Ok, but people are mad that LLM-assisted code, tons of it, is now getting into the kernel and Linus is no longer slamming the brakes…

I also think this is a bad idea unless we want less stability in the kernel. I’ve seen Torvalds call people all kinds of names for trying to add things to the kernel that he feels are subpar. He’s legendary for it. So I’d probably trust him more than any human alive to avoid slop.

But I also don’t think he has the power to effectively defend against it. Some badness will get through.

As always, we’ll choose the least-crappy OS to run.

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I like to compare them to meth. Sends velocity through the roof…with just a few minor drawbacks… 😅

5 years ago things were bad, therefore there’s no way LLMs can be bad. Is that the argument?

We’re harmmaxxing!

Here’s mine: the world would be a much, much better place if LLMs did not exist. Also, it would be stupid–today–to not use LLMs to find flaws in the Linux kernel. The only other option is to get your machines compromised.

Is it therefore smarter than you, Sam?

You promise?

This is true. But you have to balance out how much you care about following specific people. My friend was dying of cancer, and she posted to FaceBook and I wanted to keep up. It was her preferred way of maintaining contact. Would you have told her to switch to something else?

She passed away a couple months ago. So maybe you’re right that now would be a good time to cancel the account.

I don’t use the platform but still have a presence so I can be contacted there. But half the messages I receive are unsolicited porn spam. Kids are getting that shit pushed to them!

I was about to move all my photos to Proton, and then… I guess it’s a vps and Immich after all that. Sheesh.

I’m waiting to see if I’ll start using it.

It probably is honestly questionable whether walking up or helicoptering up is safer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle