

I’m sure that the day he stops breathing is the day his investors start breathing easier, yes.
I’m sure that the day he stops breathing is the day his investors start breathing easier, yes.
OK, I’m staying away from hospitals starting today.
No. There are legitimate use cases for LLMbeciles, and as long as you are wary of hallucination yours is a perfectly cromulent case. Another case is, again providing you check for delusion, translation. LLMs are far superior to whatever tech Google Translate, Baidu Translate, et al use when performing translation. As long as you double-check that you didn’t get hit by an LLM hallucination.
I’d love to see the tool used to fine tune a model based on “read, look at, and watch only stuff made pre-2000”.
It’d be one Hell of a tool that incorporates time travel!
Develop a taste only for art whose origin can be definitively proved to predate 2000. Eschew all art whose creation date has four digits and starts with a 2.
No, that’s the funniest/most enraging part. That’s Musk thinking that him carrying a chainsaw in another country lacked empathy. He is so genuinely disconnected from reality that he can’t even link his actions to the hatred sane people hold for him.
Read.
The.
Thread.
You claimed to have read the evidence.
Read it.
Closely.
A very large proportion of respondents took it straight. Apparently it was not funny to a lot of people.
So if a large number of people didn’t “get” your joke (presuming the joke isn’t something deeply technical like half the jokes, say, of XKCD), your joke just sucked. Or it wasn’t a joke until people reacted badly. One of the two.
Or option three, which happened here: someone attempted satire or dark humor and didn’t realize society had degenerated so much that people were genuinely, seriously, advocating for the satirical claim.
Oh? This was his first time on Twitter then? If so, the error is forgivable.
No, wait. It isn’t. Reader’s Digest has been doing “condensed books” in its magazines since the 1930s. People have been pitching things like Coles Notes since 1948 and Cliffs Notes since 1958. And even in the world of tech there’s been Blinkist since 2013.
So expressing surprise to negative reactions to opining that LLMbeciles are “good” for summarizing complex novels given – checks notes – almost a century of people gleefully doing just that is either ignorance of staggering proportions or disingenuousness of even more staggering proportions.
This was pretty much a Schrodinger’s Joke.
Let’s not forget the letter where the addressing clearly states “Her Excellency” but the salutation was the generic, “Dear Mr. President”.
… in retrospect it lacked empathy.
Retrospect?
RETROSPECT!!?!!???
This twat has shown no empathy toward anybody at any point in his life. His own children can’t stand him once they reach a certain level of cognition!
TACO is a nice meal anytime.
Perplexity does those weird runtime errors all the time. Just hit refresh. It eventually wakes up.
OP, LLMs don’t “know” shit.
You’ll find me making this exact point, incidentally, right here in this forum. I’m well aware that LLMbeciles know literally nothing. And that the “reasoning” models don’t do anything that even slightly resembles reasoning.
I did one better!
Give me an elevator pitch of the top 10,000 works of literature and philosophy throughout history. Ima speed-run me into a sage this afternoon.
Humanity wrestles with meaning, morality, power, suffering, love, and the search for truth—across every age and culture, we tell stories and ask questions to understand ourselves, each other, and the world, forever torn between hope and despair, freedom and fate, reason and mystery.
I’m now a sage!
Ah. Right. I forgot those were a thing once.
This guy made a joke that reads identically to the kinds of things people have been saying without a hint of humour since the ignoble days of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books up to, yes, people saying almost exactly the same thing as he said here and people took him at face value. This is despite knowing that Poe’s Law is a thing.
How terrible.
Generally if people don’t “get” your joke, there’s one of two things likely happening:
OK, I’m taking it all back. This really works!
Country | Work & Author | Elevator Pitch |
---|---|---|
Russia | Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) | A married woman’s passionate affair shatters her life and exposes the hypocrisy of high society[5]. |
Nigeria | Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) | A proud Igbo leader’s world unravels as colonialism and tradition collide. |
France | Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) | An ex-convict’s quest for redemption transforms lives amid revolution and injustice. |
Japan | The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu) | A nobleman’s romantic adventures reveal the beauty and fragility of Heian court life. |
Colombia | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) | Generations of a family grapple with love, loss, and magical fate in a mythical town. |
United States | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) | A young girl confronts racism and injustice in the Deep South through her father’s courage[5]. |
Germany | Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) | A scholar makes a deal with the devil, risking his soul for ultimate knowledge and pleasure. |
India | The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) | Twins recall a childhood tragedy that forever alters their family in postcolonial Kerala. |
China | Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) | A noble family’s rise and fall mirrors the fleeting beauty and sorrow of love and fortune. |
Italy | The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) | A journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise reveals the soul’s path to redemption. |
I am now a great knower of literature from all around the world!
Who knew that 石头记 was so simple in the end?! Why did 曹雪芹 spend so much effort writing such a simple observation!?
Expensive pictures?
We are flirting with Poe’s Law, yes. But I have seen people express similar thoughts in dead earnestness dating as far back as Reader’s Digest condensed books, so for decades people have been looking for shortcuts to comprehension of art.
Even AIs know this is bullshit.
Summaries and shortcuts can provide surface-level knowledge, but the true benefits of reading—expanded perspective, personal growth, and the joy of discovery—are only realized through immersive, attentive reading. In a world that values “time efficiency” above all else, the richness and depth of art are flattened, and the very qualities that make us human—our capacity for reflection, connection, and wonder—are diminished.
It may not be an LLM. Or a general purpose LLM. Or whatever alphabet soup is used this week.
It’s a Google-related product. Google has nobody’s best interests at heart but Google.
Even if it is called Alphabet this week.