Comment by kruffalon
2 days ago
But it's a weird kind of average... Not the 3 from 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 but rather like the bland tv-dinner which tastes non-upsetting for most people.
2 days ago
But it's a weird kind of average... Not the 3 from 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 but rather like the bland tv-dinner which tastes non-upsetting for most people.
It's more like a blur filter and a thousand layers of jpeg compression.
Great read: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
An intellectual Mode rather than a Mean or a Median?
I don't understand what you mean by "intellectual mode".
I mean that it's a kind of lowest common denominator average where it's more important to seem reasonable and to not upset anyone rather than be really good in some ways and bad in others.
> I don't understand what you mean by "intellectual mode".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
If human knowledge were a pyramid, LLMs just make the pyramid flatter, i.e. shorter, wider at the bottom, and narrower at the tip. It makes Humans dumber.
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