Comment by originalvichy

Re: "The Asymmetry of Bullshit"

I'm gonna speak on behalf of language models' capability of making online communities better. In recent times, the frustrating forum phenomenon of "learned helplessness" is making me too annoyed to participate. Even in a fantastic subreddit as /r/LocalLLaMA, there are people posting replies in the vein of

> user1: please help me understand this acronym the post title speaks of > user2: (explains in detail what it means)

In the "good old days", a low effort, surface level question would result in someone either muting or banning the person to keep the discussion high quality.

There I am, browsing a forum dedicated to LLM enthusiasts, and an unbeliavable number of people are asking LMGTFY/RTFM-level questions they could even find an answer to from a free Google Search AI summary, and people are rewarding them by actually responding to them with effort.

Thanks to models being quite intelligent at answering basics, the ban-hammer should be used more swiftly if people keep polluting forums with low-quality posts. There's no need to feel bad for them not having the time or capabilities to read through years of forum posts to feel qualified to answer.

Maybe even these sloppy posts authors can be outright muted or banned with a heavier hand for the sake of quality.