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  • It’s a statistical model. Given a sequence of words, there’s a set of probabilities for what the next word will be.

    That is a gross oversimplification. LLM’s operate on much more than just statistical probabilities. It’s true that they predict the next word based on probabilities learned from training datasets, but they also have layers of transformers to process the context provided from a prompt to eke out meaningful relationships between words and phrases.

    For example: Imagine you give an LLM the prompt, “Dumbledore went to the store to get ice cream and passed his friend Sam along the way. At the store, he got chocolate ice cream.” Now, if you ask the model, “who got chocolate ice cream from the store?” it doesn’t just blindly rely on statistical likelihood. There’s no way you could argue that “Dumbledore” is a statistically likely word to follow the text “who got chocolate ice cream from the store?” Instead, it uses its understanding of the specific context to determine that “Dumbledore” is the one who got chocolate ice cream from the store.

    So, it’s not just statistical probabilities; the models’ have an ability to comprehend context and generate meaningful responses based on that context.











  • As opposed to the kind of communism where you ask nicely for revolution? Have you actually read any Marx? I guarantee he was not a pacifist.

    You deliberately misquoted me by cutting off the end of that sentence so you could have a nice soft strawman to swing at. The full sentence said

    that try to impose communism through the use of force to repress dissent.

    Forceful revolution by the workers against the capitalist class is a completely different matter from forceful repression of dissent by the state against students and professors.


  • You’re spun around, flipped upside-down, and confused as can be.

    Tankie is a term that specifically refers to one particular kind of communism; namely, the kind that supports authoritarian regimes that try to impose communism through the use of force to repress dissent.

    You can be a communist and not be a tankie. You cannot be against progress and be a progressive.


  • When people say “anti-woke”, they actually mean that they are anti-doing anything about the awareness of systemic inequality that wokeness indicates. By definition, someone who is against change/progress is a conservative, so when someone says they are anti-woke, they are by definition expressing a conservative stance. That is, wanting to do something about systemic inequality is synonymous with having a progressive stance on systemic inequality.

    Being a tankie, on the other hand, is not synonymous with being a comunist. Tankies are just one form of communist (militant).