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  • Lol. He has fully sold out.

    This is a very poor take and based on his education and the things he has done - he surely does not think this....he's pumping LLM based startups his/(others) companies are funding...embarassing for him intellectually but probably quite beneficial financially

    Look at some of the shit John Carmack now says for God's sake. Throw enough money at anyone and they turn into an idiot

  • Things are moving so fast that I don't think even Paul understands much about the change that is brewing nor it's scale, no one knows what's going to happen.
  • And we learned that if one is in the business of copying other peoples thoughts, copying thoughts becomes thinking.
  • So Paul thinks LLMs, think?

    We can add you to the list of smart folks who have lost their minds over this topic, and all for a failure to understand the basic computer science on which they're built.

    I guess if you get too far away from the metal (and too high up in the boardroom), it's easy to lose touch.

  • Stupid anthropomorphism that only serves to reduce human accountability.
  • It’s still not thinking just because we call the reasoning texts “thoughts”. To imply otherwise in the direction of these models truly “thinking” is just a failure to understand the technology.

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