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Comment by WarmWash

4 hours ago

Totally possible that humans aren't actually that intelligent.

As well as the existing intelligence being swayed by emotions, hormones, circadian rhythms, stress, peer pressure, propaganda, and survival instincts.

  • As if ALL OF THAT doesn't represent inherent and crucial elements of judgement, and therefore"intelligence" itself.

    We are not purely rational creatures, thank God. Sometimes those "limiting factors" you listed -- stress, peer pressure, hormones -- are crucial elements of informing the problem solving process and arriving at a decision or a solution that actually works.

    All an LLM can do is fulfill a prompt, no matter how misguided, backwards, or incomplete that prompt actually was.

    "Go jump off a bridge." Hmm. Dying makes me stressed out. I'm not gonna do that.

  • That's a bit like saying a tail is swayed by a dog, as if it could exist without one, or would have anything to do if it did.