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Tangential, but related anecdote. Many years ago, I (a European) had booked a journey on a long distance overnight train in South India. I had a reserved seat/b
by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Tangential, but related anecdote. Many years ago, I (a European) had booked a journey on a long distance overnight train in South India. I had a reserved seat/berth, but couldn't work out where it was in the train. A helpful stranger on the platform read my ticket, guided me to the right carriage and showed me to my seat. As I began to settle in, a group of travellers turned up and began a discussion with my newfound friend, which rapidly turned into a shouting match until the train staff intervened and pointed out that my seat was in a completely different part of the train. The helpful soul by my side did not respond by saying "terribly sorry, I seem to have made a mistake" but instead shouted racist insults at his fellow countrymen on the grounds that they visibly belonged to a different religion to his own. All the while continuing to insist that he was right and they had somehow tricked him or cheated the system.
Moral: the world has always been full of bullshitters who want the rewards of answering someone else's question regardless of whether they actually know the facts. LLMs are just a new tool for these clowns to spray their idiotic pride all over their fellow humans.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> LLMs are just a new tool for these clowns to spray their idiotic pride all over their fellow humans. While I agree, that's a bit like saying the nuclear bomb was just a novel explosive device. Yes, but the scale of it matters.