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It's contextual though, and pragmatic seems different to me than correct. For example, if you have $20 and a leaking roof, a $20 bucket of tar may be the pragm
by b112 7mo ago
It's contextual though, and pragmatic seems different to me than correct.
For example, if you have $20 and a leaking roof, a $20 bucket of tar may be the pragmatic fix. Temporary but doable.
Some might say it is not the correct way to fix that roof. At least, I can see some making that argument. The pragmatism comes from "what can be done" vs "should be".
From my perspective, it seems viable usage. And I guess on wonders what the LLM means when using it that way. What makes it determine a compromise is required?
(To be pragmatic, shouldn't one consider that synonyms aren't identical, but instead close to the definition?)
- lelanthran 7mo ago> It's contextual though, and pragmatic seems different to me than correct. To me too, that's why I say they are measurements on different dimensions. To my mind, I can draw a X/Y axis with "Pragmatic" on the Y and "Correctness" on the X, and any point on that chart would have an {X,Y} value, which is {Pragmatic, Correctness}. If I am reading the original comment correctly, poster's experience of CC is that it is not an X/Y plot, it is a single line plot, with "Pragmatic" on the extreme left and "Correctness" on the extreme right. Basically, any movement towards pragmatism is a movement away from correctness, while in my model it is possible to move towards Pragmatic while keeping Correctness the same.
- shawnz 7mo agoI don't think it's a single axis even in the original poster's conception, since you could be both incorrect and also not pragmatic. But if a fix needs to be described as pragmatic relative to the alternatives, that's probably because it couldn't be described as correct. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking about how pragmatic it is.