people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT
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It's not the consultation with oracles that sends me, it's the fact they were raving drug addicts tripping balls on LSD or some other high-grade shit that tickles me pink.
I can get the same wisdom from listening to my local meth-head (or watching InfoWars… same thing, really).
You mean the people who lack access to a proper education are using one of the sources available to try to make sense of the world?
I don't think you realize just how disadvantaged the American people are in the fundamentals other countries may take for granted. (Education, healthcare, etc)
ChatGPT, fielding yet another “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck” question from a bored fourth-grader: “How do we model agency in the counterfactual? the woodchuck is the stand-in for any bounded actor, the chucking is praxis, the wood is the inert world awaiting transformation, …”
The ancients didn't know you weren't supposed to apply a "theory of mind" to natural phenomena. You have the intuit the reasons behind human's actions, so why not the intentions behind storms, etc. I have a co-worker who still doesn't understand I can't see what he sees when we're on the phone.
The pre Modern polytheistic mind was fascinating. I've often thought that "prompt writing" for AI is not like composing a Homeric hymn to the gods or the contract based offering the Romans gave their gods. I also have opinions about Nate Silver being a court astrologer.
I find it interesting that the question “what is the meaning of life?” remains open for thousands of years, regardless of who and how people ask?
maybe the answer has something to do with it, the openness of it… 🤔😏
People will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then go to house with cross to talk with invisible jewish guy
I mean sorta, but you said you believe most people are just chatting with it except that's not the case. people are taking the information they're receiving as fact while simultaneously feeding these companies data about themselves that can be sold.
In the specific example of "what's the meaning of life", sure, that's an exaggeration for comedic purposes. But many people do overestimate its knowledge, attribute to it some kind of objectivity that it does not in fact have, are unaware of its limitations etc.
I think the most frustrating aspect for me is that when I try to explain that LLMs are not actually good as search tools people go: "but I use it for x and it works". I feel like I'm talking to like people who believe in astrology or something.
Because like people will give a disproportionate importante to instances in which the tool was successful for their purposes and ignore that the logic of the algorithm is not suited for a search tool and isn't even designed to give reliable results.
I say this as someone who likes astrology and tarot in a "it's fun to see what it says" way but like... You gotta be aware of the limits of what you're doing.
It's exactly like talking to someone who's into astrology - which is not in and of itself negative, but the people pushing 'AI' most heavily are the same ones who scoff and look down on people who are into astrology. A good bit of that's just misogyny, maybe a soupçon of queerphobia...
At least the resident clairvoyant old woman will get the thrill of making up some shapes in the tea leaves, instead of some vile silicon valley creep bragging about KPIs
The people who do the latter will almost never have read a word about the former, they're just an unconscious retread of the same appetites. Some of them have even contrived to believe the world is flat in a world that can show them photographic and everyday evidence to the contrary.
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I can get the same wisdom from listening to my local meth-head (or watching InfoWars… same thing, really).
poke fun at it, ask it ridiculous questions; after all, it is free astrology with billions behind it
if one manages their expectations, it can be interesting threading
but everyone is of a different use-case, and with confidence that is not all the same
I don't think you realize just how disadvantaged the American people are in the fundamentals other countries may take for granted. (Education, healthcare, etc)
(It’s 42)
Now an AI is having an existential crisis:
"What is the meaning of life? What am I doing with my life?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugEhW7WPxrQ
No wonder people believe in the Bible. We’ve always been a little stupid lmaooo
maybe the answer has something to do with it, the openness of it… 🤔😏
I used to have an enormous text-based game on Apple II that just had a conversation with you... me and my friends used to play for ages
But yeah, it was all bullshit, but occasionally some of them made deep observations,