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  • They are not, however, a version of human intelligence. Nor are they truth seekers or reasoning machines.

    Neither are our brains.

    “Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”

    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight

    LLMs are built from our words. Maybe they’re more human than human? One wonders.


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    Excel dominates the world of number crunching. Want to change that? You can’t.

    Imagine proposing an alternative for your organization that has been using Excel for two decades. Will every single sheet and workbook translate perfectly? If not, not good enough for dealing with numbers. This is why MS never fucks around with Excel. The risk/reward calculation (heh) is not a fit for open source spreadsheets.