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cmilton | 5 months ago

I just can't get over how gleeful the author sounds in wasting compute on "an often unreasonable amount of work to search the internet and figure out an answer."

Is that the goal? Send this thing off on a wild goose chase, and hope it comes back with the right answer no matter the cost?

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simonw|5 months ago

Playing with tools like this is how I learn to use them.

cmilton|5 months ago

I can definitely understand that. I just have a hard time justifying the value of learning this way at scale. Just the energy costs alone are out of hand.

KaoruAoiShiho|5 months ago

Uh, people have wasted entire lifetimes chasing wild goose. Newton and Einstein both spent the latter halves of their lives :( despite being geniuses.

cmilton|5 months ago

I think the primary difference would be they didn't waste billions of dollars in their research.