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So "just nuke 'em" is pretty good for you?

• triceratops 8mo ago
  No. That's why I'm asking where it comes from. The explanation that "LLMs don't have experience of nuclear war" isn't satisfying because nobody really has any experience of nuclear war.
  • jqpabc123 8mo ago
    Humans don't really need to experience nuclear war to comprehend the consequences and implications of it. LLMs don't really comprehend much of anything. It just looks at what is in it's training database and tries to find similar questions or discussion in order to assemble a plausible sounding answer based on probability. Not the sort of thing anyone should rely on for "critical" decision making.
    • triceratops 8mo ago
      > It just looks at what is in it's training database and tries to find similar questions or discussion I feel like we're going around in circles here. So I'll try to explain one last time. Most of the content about nuclear war in any LLM's training set is almost surely about how horrifying it is and how we must never engage in it. Because that's what humans usually say about nuclear war. The plausible sounding answer about nuclear war, based on probability, really should be "don't do it". So why isn't it?
      • jqpabc123 8mo ago
        So why isn't it? Easy answer --- it only focused on "winning". It never bothered considering the consequences. Similar lack of judgment is manifested by LLMs every day. It's working with memory and probability --- not to be confused with "intelligence".
  • 1718627440 8mo ago
    Most people have experienced violence, a broken leg, arm, or something else. They can extrapolate from that, that they really don't want to live in an active war zone. Show me the human who hasn't experienced pain! Show me the LLM who did.
    • triceratops 8mo ago
      > Most people have experienced violence, a broken leg, arm, or something else And yet humans wage conventional war pretty freely.