Thomas FuchsJun 7

I saw a comment (which I can’t find anymore) of an extremely astute observation about LLMs:

People only ever attribute human-like attributes like cognition and reasoning to chatbot LLMs—but never to e.g. image generators. Which use the same algorithms and technical implementation.

Show threadjosh susserJun 7
@thomasfuchs Perhaps related - most people assume everyone thinks in words and has some kind of internal dialogue like they do, and are shocked to find that some people think in other modes, like visually. I think it's quite typical that people assume everyone thinks the same way they do, and when they see slop text it sounds like their own thinking so they mistake it for actual thinking. Seems like an advanced form of pareidolia to me. Could an experiment look at visual thinkers (who don't think in words) and determine if they have a different bias toward images over text?
Show threadThomas FuchsJun 7
@joshsusser fwiw it’s possible that “neurotypicals” being easier to lie to/getting bullshitted is a species evolutionary adaption that makes groups more cohesive
Show threadjosh susser
@thomasfuchs That's been my working theory for a few years. NTs used to be just another neurotype, until humans developed agriculture and could live in big communities, then NTs knack for socializing in groups let them take over everything. Obviously there was an advantage for the group overall, but less obviously every other neurotype got left at a disadvantage.
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