Comment by dartos
1 day ago
> Appeal to authority is a well known logical fallacy.
I did not make an appeal to authority. I made an appeal to expertise.
It’s why you’d trust a doctor’s medical opinion over a child’s.
I’m not saying “listen to this guy because their captain of NLP” I’m saying listen because experts have spent years of hands on experience with things like getting NLP working at all.
> I know how dead NLP is personally because I’ve never been able to get NLP working
So you’re not an expert in the field. Barely know anything about it, but you’re okay hand waving away expertise bc you got a toy NLP Demo working…
That’s great, dude.
> I was able to get ChatGPT to classify posts based on how political it was from a scale of 1 to 10
And I know you didn’t compare the results against classic NLP to see if there was any improvements because you don’t know how…
> I did not make an appeal to authority. I made an appeal to expertise.
Lol
> I’m saying listen because experts have spent years of hands on experience with things like getting NLP working at all.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
> Barely know anything about it, but you’re okay hand waving away expertise bc you got a toy NLP Demo working…
Yes that’s my point. I don’t know anything about implementing an NLP but got something that works pretty well using an LLM extremely quickly and easily.
> And I know you didn’t compare the results against classic NLP to see if there was any improvements because you don’t know NLP…
Do you cross reference all your Google searches to make sure they are giving you the best results vs Bing and DDG?
Do you cross reference the results from your NLP with LLMs to see if there were any improvements?
> Lol
Great argument
> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
NLP professionals are also LLM professionals. LLMs are tools in an NLP toolkit. LLMs don’t make the NLP professional obsolete the way it makes handwritten spam obsolete.
I was going to explain this further but you literally wouldn’t understand.
> Do you cross reference all your Google searches to make sure they are giving you the best results vs Bing and DDG?
…Yes I do…
That’s why I cancelled my kagi subscription. It was just as good as DDG.
> Do you cross reference the results from your NLP with LLMs to see if there were any improvements?
Yes I do… because I want to use the best tool for the job. Not just the first one I was able to get working…