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		throwuwu on May 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and T... My prediction: the field of Cybernetics is about to make a major comeback.

orbital-decay on May 5, 2023 [–]

Cybernetics wasn't a coherent field but an opinionated soup of loosely related ideas. It never went away in a sense, it just stopped being called cybernetics; good ideas blended into other fields, bad ideas were forgotten.

smeagull on May 5, 2023 | [–]

It also never delivered on the promise that a combination of cybersex and genetics should have.

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