Annalee Newitz 🍜Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I've become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds ... there's a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I've started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an "authoritative" answer to a question they know nothing about. #AI #chatgpt #psychology
Frank Skornia@annaleen This reminds me of when I worked electronics retail. I would generally try to be as honest as I knew to be about specifications and capabilities, even if it meant using words like maybe and probably. And I was astonished at how many people called me out on those terms and wanted me to speak in absolutes. Other sales associates would talk in absolutes, and your toot reminds me of the times I would overhear them talking to customers
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Runefar@lispi314 @fskornia @annaleen
Well, isn't it just as much for the same reason OP is talking about though. People call you out if you are communicating uncertainty to any degree and thus will dismiss you even if you have some understanding. People who are literally experts on a subject because they don't sound certain enough often ironically due to their expertise get dismissed for this reason
Well, isn't it just as much for the same reason OP is talking about though. People call you out if you are communicating uncertainty to any degree and thus will dismiss you even if you have some understanding. People who are literally experts on a subject because they don't sound certain enough often ironically due to their expertise get dismissed for this reason
@runefar @fskornia @annaleen Right, that is part of it yes, I didn't quite express my thoughts properly.
The unwillingness to accept such limits in others (on top of oneself) is weird.
I'll much sooner trust someone who admits they don't know the answer to a question (or aren't certain about it), than one who confidently bullshits and barely apologizes when called out.
I'll note that some cultures have enough of such a relation to information certainty they have specific grammar for it.
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