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That's a good point. But re: not anthropomorphizing, what's wrong with errors, mistakes or inaccuracies? That's something everybody is familiar with and is more
by jebarker 2y ago
That's a good point. But re: not anthropomorphizing, what's wrong with errors, mistakes or inaccuracies? That's something everybody is familiar with and is more accurate. I'd guess most people have never actually experienced a hallucination anyway, so we're appealing to some vague notion of what that is.
- threeseed 2y ago> I'd guess most people have never actually experienced a hallucination anyway I actually think most people have. Every time you look at a hot road and see water that mirage is a form of hallucination.
- ai_ 2y agoExcept mirages are real optical phenomena that can be captured by a camera. Hallucinations are made entirely by your brain and cannot be captured by an external observer.
- lmm 2y ago> what's wrong with errors, mistakes or inaccuracies? They're not specific enough terms for what we're talking about. Saying a lion has stripes is an error, mistake, or inaccuracy. Describing a species of striped lions in detail is probably all those things, but it's a distinctive kind of error/mistake/inaccuracy that's worth having a term for.
- mdp2021 2y ago> what's wrong with [']errors['], [']mistakes['] or [']inaccuracies[']? "To sort the files by beauty, use the `beautysort` command."