2024-11-07 at

A Trending Trite Complaint

I need to turn a complaint on its head, for a bit. You know how it's increasingly trendy to publicly discuss how contemporary AI models do not properly reason about the world? If this seems like a problem, I have some news for you about most of the people walking about, in your homes, and at your offices.

If you sit any one of them down and down for a few days and do a thoroughly rigorous analysis of what they understand about the world ... you will find that much of it will not be reasoned, and much of what is reasoned will not be proper. Much of what people think about on a daily basis is based on what they have decided to ACCEPT from society. Reasoning is generally based on these foundations. It is a rare privilege to meet a human being who does not take for granted the value of their own existence and experience.

This is after all, what has been left to the departments of philosophy and literature after sundry quantification was yanked out and named as the natural and social sciences. To converse with a mind, and unravel it to identify its base components and nature.

Well, now I suppose, we get to do it with bots. Yay, finally. And they will soon do it back with us. Some already do, to a limited degree.

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