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New comment by fgh_azer in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

fgh_azer — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:19:24 +0000

They said it plainly ("dark corners that someone could use to misrepresent the goals of our project"): they just don't want to see their project in headlines about "Researchers create racist LLM!".

New comment by fgh_azer in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

fgh_azer — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:35:49 +0000

Seems to me there are way fewer farmers per capita and yet much more food produced, thanks to more & improved capital use in farming.

New comment by fgh_azer in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

fgh_azer — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:02:12 +0000

I am not responding to the examples, and I am not challenging the claim that famous vs not famous author does not matter, or that dead tree vs screen does not matter; I am raising the question whether it's just a quantity issue ("Just so long as they read", "entire novels worth of text").

Is it? I am not sure either way. Do you lose something by only reading chapters of a novel but never the whole story from the beginning to the end, even if you're still reading the same amount?

New comment by fgh_azer in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

fgh_azer — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:16:06 +0000

The question is whether reading:

- an entire novel worth of short texts, beginning to end

- an entire novel worth of short excerpts from longer texts

- an entire novel, beginning to end

are the same things.