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I don't need to feel "special". My concerns are around the people who (want to) believe their statistical models to be a lot more than they really are. My curr

I don't need to feel "special". My concerns are around the people who (want to) believe their statistical models to be a lot more than they really are. My current working theory is there's a decent fraction of humanity that has a broken theory of mind. They can't easily distinguish between "Claude told me how it got its answer" and "the statistical model made up some text that looks like reasons but have nothing to do with what the model does".

xpe 1y ago
> ... a decent fraction of humanity ... can't easily distinguish between "Claude told me how it got its answer" and "the statistical model made up some text that looks like reasons but have nothing to do with what the model does". Yes, I also think this is common and a problem. / Thanks for stating it clearly! ... Though I'm not sure if it maps to what others on the thread were trying to convey.