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This is already something that e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet appears to be able to do very well, with the added benefit of explaining why if you let it -- what is the
by svnt 2y ago
This is already something that e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet appears to be able to do very well, with the added benefit of explaining why if you let it -- what is the benefit of this model?:
> "Sometimes flu vaccines don't work; therefore vaccines are useless." - Hasty generalization
> "Every time I wash my car, it rains. Me washing my car has a definite effect on the weather." - Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
> "Everyone should like coffee: 95% of teachers do!" - Appeal to popularity and hasty generalization
> "I don't want to give up my car, so I don't think I can support fighting climate change." - False dilemma
- mannykannot 2y agoIt would take more subtle examples, embedded within what is mostly fallacy-free text, to evaluate the absolute and relative utilities of the two approaches to the problem - or, to put it another way, we should not hastily generalize from their performance on a few straightforwardly fallacious sentences.