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Comment by krick

10 months ago

I have nothing to say about Cyc (apart to that the bitter lesson is bitter indeed, but was never debunked so far; and, also, I hate LLMs). But this line (from accompanying github) deserves some attention, IMO:

> Due to the lack of long-term stability of IA, I have taken the liberty to scrape those from IA and kept them here for safe keeping.

I mean, he is not wrong, and when I want to preserve something code-related, Github comes to mind as a safe place... which is crazy, if you think about it for a moment. And the fact that we are starting to use Github as a backup for IA is almost comically grotesque. I don't have a solution, but it's worth reminding that we sure have a problem.

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KerrAvon  10 months ago

It's worse. GitHub is owned by Microsoft and exists as a community resource only as long as Microsoft's benevolence holds out.

  • marsten  10 months ago

    My own thought process is that it's like Usenet or arXiv: The collective value of Github is so high that even if Microsoft loses interest, someone else will buy it from them or clone the content elsewhere. That said, I do wish there was an alternative that didn't involve a for-profit corporation.

thot_experiment  10 months ago

What does it mean to you to hate LLMs?

  • ted_dunning  10 months ago

    Have you ever not hated LLMs?

    • thot_experiment  10 months ago

      Yes? I don't hate LLMs and I don't think I ever have. They are super useful and neat, I use them all the time from smolguys on my computer to Claude in the cloud. It's like saying "I hate forks" or something, like why do you hate a generic tool that has many applications? I love that I have these things for free at home forever, my personal wiki and time tracker have both gotten way more useful ever since I baked an LLM in.

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