Tom Ritchford
Jul 18, 2023

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You speak with such certainty about future events.

Right now, LLMs generate strings of plausible sounding text but correctness is poor.

The idea that "truth" is just a detail that can be bolted on after the fact really isn't so obviously true. I am hopeful that this will happen, but such absolutely confidence about your extreme predictions seems unwarranted.

I note you are also an advocate for cryptocurrencies, which was the Next Big Thing before LLMs. A decade ago, when I started working in the cryptocurrency field, everyone was expecting and promising that all existing financial systems would be swept away Real Soon Now.

It hasn't happened. Literally not a single blockchain project has demonstrated any utility outside of the cryptocurrency world, which has no relevance at all to 99% of the world's population.

I think you should reconsider your absolute certainty on both these matters.

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