Re:Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
by diggan on Thursday June 19, 2025 @12:24PM
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> Is that bad?
It doesn't have to be. But it does get somewhat boring and trite after a while when you start noticing that certain subjects on HN tend to attract general and/or samey comments about $thing, rather than the submission topic within $thing, and I do think that is against the guidelines.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals [...] Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. [...]
The specific part of:
> English is a terrible language for deterministic outcomes
Strikes me as both as a generic tangent about LLMs, and the comment as a whole feels like a shallow dismissal of the entire talk, as Karpathy never claims English is a good language for deterministic outcomes, nor have I heard anyone else make that claim.
Re:Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
by diggan on Thursday June 19, 2025 @12:41PM
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But is it curious? Is it thoughtful and substantive? Maybe it could have been thoughtful, if it felt like it was in response to what was mentioned in the submission.
It doesn't have to be. But it does get somewhat boring and trite after a while when you start noticing that certain subjects on HN tend to attract general and/or samey comments about $thing, rather than the submission topic within $thing, and I do think that is against the guidelines.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals [...] Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. [...]
The specific part of:
> English is a terrible language for deterministic outcomes
Strikes me as both as a generic tangent about LLMs, and the comment as a whole feels like a shallow dismissal of the entire talk, as Karpathy never claims English is a good language for deterministic outcomes, nor have I heard anyone else make that claim.