Comment by wpietri
4 days ago
> You'll not only never know this, it's IMHO not very useful to think about at all, except as an intellectual exercise.
I think it's very useful if one wants to properly weigh the value of LLMs in a way that gets beyond the hype. Which I do.
Sure, and that works in the abstract (ie "what investment would theoretically have made the most sense") but if you are trying to compare in the real world you have to be careful because it assumes the alternative would have ever happened. I doubt it would have.