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Authoritarian states train their citizens from childhood on to believe the pronouncements of their authority figures without question, while enlightened states
by photochemsyn 2y ago
Authoritarian states train their citizens from childhood on to believe the pronouncements of their authority figures without question, while enlightened states encourage the development of independent critical thinking skills which aid greatly in the detection of deception - which is of course a skill that propagandists and advertisers don't want to see spreading. Their end goal is a population of easily manipulated infantilized people who will do as they're told.
Now, if you have had any exposure to critical thinking, perhaps in the form of membership in some kind of debate club where you often had to construct logical arguments in favor of positions that you personally disagreed with, you'd be better prepared to construct queries for LLMs. For example, always asking for detailed arguments in favor of and against some strategy - and then looking for things like logical inconsistency in the resulting arguments, etc.
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- barbariangrunge 2y agoWhen you request for and against arguments, the results are usually contradictory and cite contradictory facts which may or may not be made up. Or, both sides will be really shallow and useless. Llms are not yet good at this.