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There's a tendency to treat transformers as a magic wand


Yeah. I never liked the blackbox property (it works but we don’t know why). But the second order effect that we’re witnessing now is basically ”we are going to assume it’s good at everything unless proven otherwise”. This to me is religious. When you ask why is it not able to do X? And you get the answer ”just wait a year, it’s constantly getting better”. Ok, but at least we can try to be curious about the boundaries. The fact that our understanding is way behind is not a good thing, no matter if you’re an optimist or pessimist.




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