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The "Earth is flat" example is extreme, because it's accepted as a silly statement given what we know now, but the principle of "LLM won't force an opinion on y
by m11a 2y ago
The "Earth is flat" example is extreme, because it's accepted as a silly statement given what we know now, but the principle of "LLM won't force an opinion on you" seems like a good one.
There are definitely topics on which conventional wisdom is incorrect (as has been throughout history). An LLM that refuses to entertain the converse during a conversation will be annoying to work with and just promotes groupthink.
- mihaic 2y agoExcept that it will force on you the view that shoplifting is bad. Which implies that it'll bend on legal but immoral requests. It's also a different matter to entertain a hypothetical in a situation where there isn't a consensus (or in any fictional scenarios), all the while making it explicit that it's all hypethetical.