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Post #2713060
2026-02-01 23:28 UTC
@danielpunkass@mastodon.social I’m just saying it’s kind of odd to basically say “statistics is here whether we like it or not.”
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@danielpunkass@mastodon.social 2026-02-01 23:32
Don't you think back in the day somebody might have said something similar about the new science of statistics?
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@mattdarveniza@mastodon.social 2026-02-01 23:34
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @danielpunkass@mastodon.social feels kind of intentionally obtuse. Are LLMs fundementally statistical models? Mostly yeah. But it's like arguing "nuclear weapons and subsequent arms races are here to stay" is the same as "atomic physics are here to stay" (obviously hyperbolic and not equivalent in impact). One is derived from the other but isn't an inevitability.