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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:11:59 JST Aral Balkan

   • Martin Dougiamas
   • Rich Felker
   • Mud Road

   @dalias @fredb @martin “We” being a tiny handful of people, it feels like.

   • JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized (jwcph@helvede.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:30:57 JST JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized

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     • Martin Dougiamas
     • Rich Felker
     • Mud Road

     @aral @dalias @fredb @martin Yeah, really. Like, I had an argument with a friend *who is a statistician* & still refused to believe that there is no reasoning going on or understanding emerging in an LLM - simply because it looks so convincing.

     Pretty sure most of it is the "Mentalist Effect"; I mean, despite this having been debunked since fucking Houdini, look at how many people still believe that shit is real...

     https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/