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Comment by falcor84

6 months ago

As Voltaire said, "Common sense is not so common" even in humans, so I don't expect this to be solved any time soon.

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krapp  6 months ago

The vast majority of humans would immediately recognize an order for 18,000 waters as BS, or bacon on ice cream as weird. While it may be the case that plugging "common sense" into LLMs may not be solved anytime soon, the canard of "humans are just as bad if not worse" doesn't really apply here.

  • falcor84  6 months ago

    As a human, I would not refuse either of these. If someone asked to order 18,000 waters, I would redirect them to our wholesale rep, and if they want bacon on ice cream, who am I to judge; I've seen people eating weirder stuff. If I have something on my menu, I'm ok with people ordering it in any amount and combination as long as they're paying and I'll figure it out. And if I do have a hard limitation on amounts or combination, I'll want to encode it into the ordering system; no common sense needed.

    • krapp  6 months ago

      I did say "the vast majority of humans." Obviously there will be exceptions like yourself but luckily for the rest of us such exceptions are rare.