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So instead of putting out the fires, in the interest of improving the situation, we'll make the fires bigger? A good deal of humans care about the truth. Some
by agentultra 3y ago
So instead of putting out the fires, in the interest of improving the situation, we'll make the fires bigger?
A good deal of humans care about the truth. Some of them actively seek to deceive and avoid the truth -- liars, we tend to dislike them. But the ones both sides dislike are the ones who disregard the truth... ie: bullshitters -- the, "that's just your opinion, man," the, "what even is the truth anyway?" people.
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- kevindamm 3y agoSometimes the truth is more complicated than your binary characterization. Most of the time, probably.
- agentultra 3y agoComplicated is fine, but knowable. You can accept the truth or deceive others but regardless of your intentions you can recognize the truth exists. While I'm aware of the criticisms of Frankfurt's definition of bullshit [0], I think a useful part of it is the idea that there are folks who don't even care what the truth is. This seems to be the intended purpose of generative AI; ie: hallucinations exist by design and cannot be removed without recognizing that the approach needs to change. I think that's what gets people like the author to write criticisms like this. We detest bullshit in a number of critical areas such as information retrieval and search. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
- gumballindie 3y agoThese people have been trained by openai’s marketing team to deflect and reflect any criticism of the bull shit generators. The amount of gullible people eager to ignore reality is terrifying.