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brookst on Sept 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning to Reason with LLMs

Token count was always an approximation of value. This may help break that silly idea.

regularfry on Sept 12, 2024 [–]

I don't think it's much good as an approximation of value, but it seems ok as an approximation of cost.

brookst on Sept 15, 2024 | [–]

Fair, cost and value are only loosely related. Trying to price based on cost always turns into a mess.

regularfry on Sept 16, 2024 | | [–]

Its what you do when you're a commodity.

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