Comment by kps

14 hours ago

Hypothesis: Weighted to the postwar western fashion of amplifying Enlightenment self-critique into self-sabotage. What if you ask the same question in Mandarin?

I tried it with Gemini, and essentially the answer translated back to English is that "free will is just a carbon-based algorithm."

  • My local Qwen model complains that humans are "chronically bad at distinguishing between problems that need fixing and noise that will settle."

    At least it's not emo.

    • > At least it's not emo.

      Huh, that answer reads like a weighted average sentence from someone's live journal circa 2001. Definitely emo!