Comment by TeMPOraL
6 months ago
They are not wrong.
The market, meant in a general sense, is stronger than any individual or groups of people. LLMs are here, and already demonstrate enough productive value to make them in high demand for objective reasons (vs. just as a speculation vehicle). They're not going away, nor is larger GenAI. It would take a collapse of technological civilization to turn the tide back now.
The market is a group of people.
And you are a collection of cells, but individual cells (mostly) don’t have the ability to dictate your actions
Yeah, but Jeff Bezos does actually have control over Amazon and can make decisions.
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Indeed. Here, a very large one. Now, focus on the dynamics of that group to see my point.
Or much more elaborately, but also exhaustively and to the point: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
I'm not going to read that hack, but in either case, the metaphysical monster of the market you're proposing is not what is propping up LLMs. It's the decisions of actors at major tech companies and VCs. These are people, not magical entities. And even still, LLMs aren't profitable.
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