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The mental gymnastics are beautiful and entertaining. Google image "podium". Google image "computer". The vast majority of computers shown can be placed on the

The mental gymnastics are beautiful and entertaining. Google image "podium". Google image "computer". The vast majority of computers shown can be placed on the vast majority of podiums shown. But again, as the other commenter points out, this is abductive reasoning. In addition to getting lost in the irrelevant weeds of "these two objects serve very different purposes and have distinct characteristics", ChatGPT also fails to point out that there are 2 common definitions for podium - one made for lecturing, on which you could place most modern computers that aren't 30kg hunks of metal (all of my university lecturers definitely had computers on the podium). And one made for humans, on which you could definitely place any bulky desktop computer short of a mainframe. What this really shows though is that LLM output is a mirror in which people will read mostly what they want to read which matches their narrative.

famouswaffles 3y ago
>The mental gymnastics are beautiful and entertaining. Sure >But again, as the other commenter points out, this is abductive reasoning. Deduction is divining the effect from rule and cause. The rule is the definition of the podition, the cause is that a computer is small enough to fit a podium and the effect is that a computer is a podition. >Google image "podium". Google image "computer". The vast majority of computers shown can be placed on the vast majority of podiums shown. Deduction does not deal with probable statements. The rule and cause must both be true. My cause is not always true. Like i said, i genuinely do think it's funny that you read all that and decided it was absence of reasoning. Just kind of shows the state of things.