antirez Slams Anti-LLM Camp: Moving the Goalposts is a Historic Scientific Error
solyarisoftware · x · 2026-08-03
Redis creator antirez shared a critique of prominent AI skeptic Gary Marcus. The original post lists Marcus's history of dismissing deep learning since 2012, noting how he continually 'moves the goalposts' after being proven wrong. antirez argues that anti-LLM critics are committing the greatest perpetual error in the history of science by ignoring actual progress.
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