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FYI, this is the same as people doing web searches. You’ll always find a place that agrees with you or says it’s possible.
by aurareturn 3y ago
FYI, this is the same as people doing web searches. You’ll always find a place that agrees with you or says it’s possible.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoWith web searches the reputation of sources can at least be discriminated. (Which seems to even help GPT-4 ?)
- zarathustreal 3y agoTo be fair, this is also illogical, at least in a literal sense. It’s the Appeal to Authority fallacy. The reputation of the speaker doesn’t necessarily confirm or deny an assertion they make. Granted, most people tend to use some combination of both logic and heuristics in practice to determine their own understanding of the truth, perceived reputation being a fairly common one.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoSure, but so is listening to doctors(' websites). That's why there's a LOT of checks and balances around who gets to claim to be a doctor !
- tsimionescu 3y ago> To be fair, this is also illogical, at least in a literal sense Mostly in the same sense as arguments from induction are "illogical". Appeal to authority is essentially an inductive argument, and those are just as logical. Of course, they deal in probabilities rather than certainty, unlike deduction, but that doesn't make them illogical.
- zarathustreal 3y agoIt does make it illogical, in the same way that “dealing in probabilities” makes many other things illogical. Like, for example, crime statistics.
- tsimionescu 3y agoAll of physics, and science in general, is based on arguments from induction. If you want to call that illogical too, then, fair enough.
- quest88 3y agoNot quite. For people outside of tech they can hear "AI" and think it must be right. And how great GPT is so it must be right. There are no other opinions. Distilled down, classic search is many results; gpt is one result.
- aChattuio 3y agoSomeone in tech debated me on the term fossil fuel. He said that oil is renewable because the platonic plates make oil and not some million old waiting based chemical process. When people ignore everything and also ignore logic (why do oil wells disappear after getting the oil out) it really doesn't matter were they read it
- meindnoch 3y agoPlatonic plates?
- threecheese 3y agoYes, the Form of a slightly concave disc for your dinner. Your kitchen cabinets contain only imperfect reflections of the True Plate.
- aChattuio 3y agoTectonic plates. Not sure why I wrote platonic
- richrichie 3y agoFunny you mention this. There was a time (in my living memory), where people regarded whatever in print as proof of correctness. Newspapers had value then.
- xyzzy123 3y agoIt's even worse than that imho, unscrupulous sellers will go into keyword planner in google ads and create content to sell supplements and find "under-served" niches. It's actively adversarial.