Re:Patience too cheap to meter
by kepano on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:48PM
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I had a similar though a while ago[1]:
> the most salient quality of language models is their ability to be infinitely patient
> humans have low tolerance when dealing with someone who changes their mind often, or needs something explained twenty different ways
Something I enjoy when working with language models is the ability to completely abandon days of work because I realize I am on the wrong track. This is difficult to do with humans because of the social element of sunk cost fallacy — it can be hard to let go of the work we invested our own time into.
Re:Patience too cheap to meter
by 124123124 on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:29AM
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Agree, I find it rather funny that LLM can refresh their context, but human remember their context day-through-day so it is sometime very hard to explain things in an alternative wording to them.
> the most salient quality of language models is their ability to be infinitely patient > humans have low tolerance when dealing with someone who changes their mind often, or needs something explained twenty different ways
Something I enjoy when working with language models is the ability to completely abandon days of work because I realize I am on the wrong track. This is difficult to do with humans because of the social element of sunk cost fallacy — it can be hard to let go of the work we invested our own time into.
[1] https://x.com/kepano/status/1842274557559816194