Comment by jerf

1 day ago

Yes, humans evaluating humans also causes human foibles to be magnified.

I cite the entire current education system. Substantiating that claim would take more than an HN comment allows, though I think most people can probably get the drift of what I'm talking about, even if we'd disagree about the details. Absolutely humans are not immune to this.

I also cite the entire concept of "fallacies", many of which are things that both human brains tend to produce and then tend to evaluate poorly. An alien species might find some of our fallacies absolutely transparent, and have entirely different fallacies of their own that none of us would find convincing in the slightest, because of fundamentally different brain architectures.

I don't think AIs are ready for this yet and I don't expect LLMs ever will be, but in the future getting an outsider perspective from them in a sort of Mixture of Experts architecture could be valuable for life decisions. (I look to the future AI architectures in which LLMs are just a component but not the whole.)