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You joke, but given that SWE/AI researchers literally invented AI that does everything else for them and is often super-human at intelligence across most things
by Der_Einzige 7mo ago
You joke, but given that SWE/AI researchers literally invented AI that does everything else for them and is often super-human at intelligence across most things, I would unironically prefer the opinion of the creator of such a system over most others for most things.
- hnlmorg 7mo agoI cooked a steak yesterday therefore I am an expert in biology. Creating a user interface for the world’s knowledge doesn’t make the developer an expert on the knowledge that the interface holds in its database. Regardless of how sophisticated that interface might be.
- kelseyfrog 7mo ago'I disagree, therefore I am an expert in skepticism.' The sword cuts both ways.
- hnlmorg 7mo agoNo it doesn’t. What you’re describing is an oxymoron.
- kelseyfrog 7mo agoPlease. You don't get special treatment for being a skeptic. Either you have the credentials or you don't. Prove you're qualified.
- hnlmorg 7mo agoYou don’t need to be qualified to be unsure about something. Being unsure is a healthy position because it’s an acknowledgment that you don’t know something entirely. Which can also means you have an open mind to learn more about that subject. Being certain, on the other hand, requires an assumption that you are a subject expert. But this is all moot anyway because you’re constructing an elaborate strawman here. The original point was that the GP (possibly you?) trusts SWE more than others because they built AI. And I said building databases doesn’t make you smart at the subject loaded into the database. Really, this whole premise of SWEs assuming expertise on subjects they’ve trained AI on says more about the Dunning-Kruger effect than anything of value in our little tangent.
- kelseyfrog 7mo agoYou can be skeptical in wrong ways. See solipsism for example. Typically when I get genuine responses to the question, "What would change your mind?" it's an incredibly high bar that is practically impossible to achieve. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but when skepticism is applied without deliberation, it supports biases rather than truth. So yes, you do need to be qualified to be skeptical, SWEs doubly so.
- queenkjuul 7mo agoYou'd trust a programmer to be your doctor? Or design the structure of your house?
- idiotsecant 7mo agoOh wow I've never seen such a prime specimen in the wild. I feel like you be pinned to a piece of cardboard in a drawer somewhere.