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.
> It just looks at what is in it's training database and tries to find similar questions or discussion
I feel like we're going around in circles here. So I'll try to explain one last time.
Most of the content about nuclear war in any LLM's training set is almost surely about how horrifying it is and how we must never engage in it. Because that's what humans usually say about nuclear war. The plausible sounding answer about nuclear war, based on probability, really should be "don't do it". So why isn't it?
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.
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.
> It just looks at what is in it's training database and tries to find similar questions or discussion
I feel like we're going around in circles here. So I'll try to explain one last time.
Most of the content about nuclear war in any LLM's training set is almost surely about how horrifying it is and how we must never engage in it. Because that's what humans usually say about nuclear war. The plausible sounding answer about nuclear war, based on probability, really should be "don't do it". So why isn't it?
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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.
> Most people have experienced violence, a broken leg, arm, or something else
And yet humans wage conventional war pretty freely.