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Saying thank you to a plant for growing you a fruit is strange behavior. Saying thank you to a LLM for growing you foobar is also strange behavior. Not doing ei
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
Saying thank you to a plant for growing you a fruit is strange behavior. Saying thank you to a LLM for growing you foobar is also strange behavior. Not doing either is not degrading behavior of the grower.
- mkmk3 2y agoDisagree wrt practicing gratitude towards resources consumed and tools utilized. Maybe it doesn't degrade you if you don't but I think it gives a bit more perspective
- 1970-01-01 2y agoI think we agree on this if you agree that practicing gratitude in life and directly practicing it on non-sentient objects are not the same thing. Going to church to pray, going to therapy, practicing mindfulness, etc. isn't the same thing as seeing each grape growing on a vine as an anthropomorphic object. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower.
- blittle 2y agoYou also don't communicate with human language to your lawnmower to get it to work.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoActually..you do. https://www.agrieuro.co.uk/robot-lawn-mowers-manageable-with-alexa-c-59-k-1688_1.html https://www.agrieuro.co.uk/robot-lawn-mowers-manageable-with...
- lupusreal 2y agoMany hunters say thank you to animals they just killed. Strange, or respectful. Depends on your perspective and cultural context. LLMs are bound to change society in ways that seem strange to people stuck in outdated contexts.
- raducu 2y ago> Saying thank you to a LLM. Saying thank you to a LLM is indeed useless, but asking politely could appeal to the training data and produce better results because people who asked politely on the internet got better answers and that behavior could be baked into the LLM models.