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I have this too and to be honest, I have made the conscious decision that it is OK. I prefer to retain my habit of being polite even when it's not necessary ove

I have this too and to be honest, I have made the conscious decision that it is OK. I prefer to retain my habit of being polite even when it's not necessary over getting used to being rude which may then "spill" over to my human-to-human interactions.

jaynetics 3y ago
Descartes and Kant thought that humans have a soul and animals don't, so that animals are mere automata. Kant still recommended against mistreating animals because that would have a desensitizing effect in our dealings with fellow humans. I guess this argument could be extended to ChatGPT.
- pbhjpbhj 3y ago
  Wouldn't it be amazingly ironic if all ML models used slightly more energy to analyse everyone's politeness resulting in pushing us past the tipping point of global warming. Resulting in the ultimate impoliteness of destroying all life in the Universe (sounds like a line from Hitchhiker's Guide) ... meaning Kant's Categorical Imperative should have been applied and no courtesies should have been used in querying ML models ...?
pbhjpbhj 3y ago
What's interesting is that you consider short, objective focused definition of a task to be "rude". It's like the _reported_ way in which is you say thank you to a Chinese friend they take umbrage (get angry) because it's as if you weren't expecting them to help. Whilst in other cultures not saying thank you is a big sleight.
- kristiandupont 3y ago
  Sure, I'm a product of my culture as everyone else. And in fact, my native language is Danish which doesn't even have a word for please, so I myself change my behavior when I speak English, which I do with ChatGPT and CoPilot, by saying please :-)
qingcharles 3y ago
I don't have citations, but I believe there were studies done to show that humans are getting ruder to each other based on their interactions with machines where they don't feel like they need to be polite. My mother always would thank every telephone answering machine, which was very endearing.

jaynetics 3y ago

Descartes and Kant thought that humans have a soul and animals don't, so that animals are mere automata. Kant still recommended against mistreating animals because that would have a desensitizing effect in our dealings with fellow humans. I guess this argument could be extended to ChatGPT.

pbhjpbhj 3y ago
Wouldn't it be amazingly ironic if all ML models used slightly more energy to analyse everyone's politeness resulting in pushing us past the tipping point of global warming. Resulting in the ultimate impoliteness of destroying all life in the Universe (sounds like a line from Hitchhiker's Guide) ... meaning Kant's Categorical Imperative should have been applied and no courtesies should have been used in querying ML models ...?

pbhjpbhj 3y ago

What's interesting is that you consider short, objective focused definition of a task to be "rude". It's like the _reported_ way in which is you say thank you to a Chinese friend they take umbrage (get angry) because it's as if you weren't expecting them to help. Whilst in other cultures not saying thank you is a big sleight.

kristiandupont 3y ago
Sure, I'm a product of my culture as everyone else. And in fact, my native language is Danish which doesn't even have a word for please, so I myself change my behavior when I speak English, which I do with ChatGPT and CoPilot, by saying please :-)

qingcharles 3y ago

I don't have citations, but I believe there were studies done to show that humans are getting ruder to each other based on their interactions with machines where they don't feel like they need to be polite. My mother always would thank every telephone answering machine, which was very endearing.