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The Pascal's Wager of it all

2026-05-22 17:42:18.791276+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The Register: Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report. I mean, it's the usual The Reg snark, but the Reddit thread of people dissecting why the slot machine strategy prompts failed is super super sad.

Which leads to a couple of Fediverse posts for the morning. mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca

Seeing people I respect calling their development process "arguing with chatbots" now is really getting kind of sad. There's no agency there, man, there's no choice. There's no understanding. You're standing at the craps table in a plausible-syntax casino, telling the dice they're wrong and to try again. Of course the house is winning.

Primo @Primo@donphan.social

@AnarchoNinaWrites either LLMs are capable of doing what is advertised, and them it's impossible to be left behind, or it isn't capable and then it's not worth not falling behind.
Where some guy came up with a bet that has favourible odds for believing in god, the LLM hype is a bet with favourable odds for disbelief.

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