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Maybe it's an opportunity for people to get better at critical review of the information they are presented. Maybe they'll learn just because they are being tol
by taberiand 4y ago
Maybe it's an opportunity for people to get better at critical review of the information they are presented. Maybe they'll learn just because they are being told something authoritatively that doesn't mean it's right?
And so what if it people misuse the the tool while they learn? What's wrong with being wrong?
- bambax 4y agoWe learn by example. What this tool teaches is that self-confidence is more important than content. And maybe it is! in life in general. But not in the pursuit of knowledge. Instead of patronizing users by adding a stupid sentence at the end of each answer reminding them to be careful, it could say every time "I'm just a machine and what I say is random; if it's true it's by accident; it's mostly probably wrong and only sounds like the truth". Here's an example I posted in another thread, where the machine is repeatedly mistaken but affirms it absolutely, positively can't make a mistake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852236