Comment by AndrewKemendo
2 months ago
I’m not narrow, you just wrote a lot of positive psychology babble.
This is an epistemological question and everything you wrote is epistemically bankrupt. To wit:
“Another, might intuit that the religious ceremony has been shown throughout their lives, to confer divine protection”
This kind of mythology is why humans and human society will never escape the cave, and semi-literate people sound smart to the illiterate with this bullshit
Well now, here’s a puzzle for you. If literate humans don’t believe in myth, and all US Presidents had religious affiliation, were they all a) semi-literate ‘cave people’, b) cynical manipulators of the semi-literate cave-people, c) something else?
And if a person practices any myth-based festival, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, is that indicative to you of a semi-literate cave-person? Or do you make exemptions for how a person interprets the event, and if so, how do you apply those exemptions consistently across all myth-based societies? Also do you reject science-fiction and fantasy works as works of idle fancy or do you allow that they use metaphor to convey important ideas applicable to life, and how do you square that with your treatment of myth in religion?
It is my hope, that you will consider my comment, and come to a better understanding of what LLMs are. They aren’t baking any universal truth, or world model, they are collating alternative narrative systems.
No exemptions, I don’t really mess with science fiction other than what I’ve written.
Are you seriously asking if the US president is a semi literate person?
The answer is obvious
Read this and be enlightened: https://kemendo.com/benchmark.html