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Comment by triceratops

4 days ago

LLMs have shown the ability to do this. Not as much as the most capable humans. But still pretty good.

So "just nuke 'em" is pretty good for you?

  • No. That's why I'm asking where it comes from. The explanation that "LLMs don't have experience of nuclear war" isn't satisfying because nobody really has any experience of nuclear war.

    • Humans don't really need to experience nuclear war to comprehend the consequences and implications of it.

      LLMs don't really comprehend much of anything. It just looks at what is in it's training database and tries to find similar questions or discussion in order to assemble a plausible sounding answer based on probability.

      Not the sort of thing anyone should rely on for "critical" decision making.

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    • Most people have experienced violence, a broken leg, arm, or something else. They can extrapolate from that, that they really don't want to live in an active war zone. Show me the human who hasn't experienced pain! Show me the LLM who did.

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