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I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless. Perfect, no. But useless, also no.



> I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless.

Clearly, statistical models trained on this HN thread would output that sequence of tokens with high probability. Are you suggesting that a statement being probable in a text corpus is not a legitimate source of truth? Can you generalize that a little bit?


Who said anything about truth? We're talking about usefulness.




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