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0 pointsimtringued2mo ago0 comments

This is a very strange and contradictory situation. I'm not sure there's any point in engaging with you since there is nothing but a stream of weak dismissals farming for engagement.

You dismiss LLMs because of factual inaccuracy, which is fair, but now you're doubling down on an anti search engine stance, which is weird, because the modern substitute is letting LLMs either use search engines on your behalf or learn the entire internet with some error and you've dismissed both.

Yes, I'm the "backwards" guy who still uses search engines. We still exist.

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satvikpendem2mo ago

I've noticed that HN can attract some of the most extreme people I've ever seen, and I suppose there is precedent in the tech world when I'm reminded of the story of Stallman not using a browser but instead sending webpages to his email where he then reads the content. It's literally nonsensical for 99.9999% of the population and I've read similar absurd things on HN as well.

This person not using LLMs is fine, I understand the argument like you said, but the double down on not using search engines either makes me not take anything they say seriously. Not to be too crass but it reminds me of this situation on the nature of arguing on the internet [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/pxb2kn/i_got_int...

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