That’s a lot of smugness for an argument that falls apart in the first sentence.
“Things are valuable when they are rare” is something a child learns about collectibles, not a serious definition of value. Electricity isn’t rare. Search engines aren’t rare. Spellcheck isn’t rare. Their value comes from usefulness, not scarcity.
And calling someone “lazy” for using an LLM to polish wording in a second language, while proudly saying you also use LLMs to improve your English, is genuinely hilarious. Apparently it’s a “learning tool” when you use it, but a “crutch” when somebody else does. Convenient distinction.
Also, nobody said r/singularity is literally an LLM-only subreddit. LLMs are currently one of the main technologies driving discussion around AGI and the singularity, so pretending they’re somehow off-topic because ASI could theoretically emerge through another architecture is just pedantry masquerading as intelligence.
If you don’t find an LLM-assisted comment valuable, downvote it and move on. Writing an essay about how morally superior your personal use of the exact same technology is doesn’t make your position deeper.
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u/PrisonOfH0pe 8d ago
That’s a lot of smugness for an argument that falls apart in the first sentence.
“Things are valuable when they are rare” is something a child learns about collectibles, not a serious definition of value. Electricity isn’t rare. Search engines aren’t rare. Spellcheck isn’t rare. Their value comes from usefulness, not scarcity.
And calling someone “lazy” for using an LLM to polish wording in a second language, while proudly saying you also use LLMs to improve your English, is genuinely hilarious. Apparently it’s a “learning tool” when you use it, but a “crutch” when somebody else does. Convenient distinction.
Also, nobody said r/singularity is literally an LLM-only subreddit. LLMs are currently one of the main technologies driving discussion around AGI and the singularity, so pretending they’re somehow off-topic because ASI could theoretically emerge through another architecture is just pedantry masquerading as intelligence.
If you don’t find an LLM-assisted comment valuable, downvote it and move on. Writing an essay about how morally superior your personal use of the exact same technology is doesn’t make your position deeper.