meh. I feel this is just a linguistic shortcut, similar to how _trained_ biologists can talk about a species or organism evolving some trait. Of course the organism isn't _really_ evolving with any goal in mind, but that's clear to the speaker and audience. Whether or not LLMs understand (very unlikely), it's clear what we mean by an LLM "understanding": has the context + prior training to make reasonable predictions. But no one wants to write that each time.
Exactly. The whole point of all the LLM companies is to get grandma to use it. If you say understand about a technology with the desired appeal of Facebook, then you’re talking to everyone and words matter extra hard.
Show me the differences between a French Basque and a Spaniard Basque. The first one it's called a French White and the other, Hispanic.
Yet they are virtually the same.
Then, the differences between a Catalan and some French Occitan.
Wait until you find most ethnics are just remixes of each other since forever. Specially, the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean. It grew up thanks to three simple things:
- The same law for everyone no matter the race or ethnics.
- Sharing knowledge and goods. And genes. Inbreeding: retardation and diseases.
- Adopting the good things universally, discarding the rest.
The Golden Rule works. Math works. Science worked everywhere.
Just look at Unix. Stagnation and minimalism made it to evolve into Plan9/9front adopting traits from other OSes. Namespaces. Acme looking like Overon.
Even GNU mainly enhanced Unix from ITS with GNU/Emacs to crazy levels. Does the guy from that atrocious linked site (not tastyfish) use Emacs under ITS instead of GNU on top of Unix? No? Then he might be the greatest hypocrite ever.
Because RMS at least tried to bring the ITS hackability to the masses with pragmatical reasons under a libre reinvented Unix called GNU.
These purists don't realize that no system nor human has been pure, ever, save for very primitive inbreed humans and technologies.
Yeah, go, White Power. What where the WASP guys doing at the Roman times? Living in huts. What did the multi-ethnics spawning olive/white colored Roman and Greek doing in the meanwhile? Shaping up the Western Civilization.
On tech, did RMS kept using PDP10's and ITS/Maclisp with Emacs? No, he adapted and it carried on Unix' legacy by writting something technically superior with namespaces (Hurd), empowering the user and Emacs on top providing a great shell (even with Eshell) compared to the previous one.
Meanwhile, a pure Unix would leave us with bc/dc and a simple AWK plotting tool with C which is not as portable as you think, even with TCC and C99.
Heck, even Unix v10 and Plan9/9front don't look like your typical Unix at all. You have sam, not ed/vi. It shows up that using the mouse it's sometimes fine, it killed the VT, albeit using a keyboard helps with the RSI too.
That's why Emacs provides the two interfaces greatly working in parallel. Can you use Emacs under X with just a keyboard? Perfectly well.
