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Gemini’s smug and over-confident “this is the gold standard in 2026” definitely leaves little space for nuance if you don’t know the subject matter. Human stude
by port11 6mo ago
Gemini’s smug and over-confident “this is the gold standard in 2026” definitely leaves little space for nuance if you don’t know the subject matter. Human students would, hopefully, know they don’t know everything.
- quantummagic 6mo ago> Gemini’s smug... Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous, whether coming from the bullish or bearish perspective. The output is statistically generated by a machine lacking the capability to be smug.
- Jtarii 6mo ago>Anthropomorphizing these systems is dangerous That ship has sailed. Humans will anthropomorphize a rock if you put googly eyes on it.
- bartvk 6mo agoFirst I thought to myself, "my daughter does this and it looks so cute". And only as a second thought, that your comment just proved itself.
- DiogenesKynikos 6mo agoIt's only "statistically generated" in the same way that your brain is just "neurons firing." That's the low-level description of what's happening, but on a higher level, it's correct to say that it's being smug.
- antisthenes 6mo ago> it's correct to say that it's being smug. It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge. A machine has no such imperative, so what you call 'being smug' is statistical mimicry.
- DiogenesKynikos 6mo agoThe LLM has learned certain behaviors, including smugness. Its motivations for being smug may be different, but it's being smug nonetheless.
- port11 6mo agoI suppose the model was trained in such a way, the smugness is a facsimile of reality. Other models offer concise, direct answers without these idiotic qualifiers.