General Discussion

I think most of us have recognized moments, maybe even hours or days, when we are running on auto-pilot, letting the language pathways burned into our brains do our "thinking" for us.

We also have moments when things we thought were true are proved wrong, or when we discover that our own internal model of the world outside ourselves is too simplistic to solve the problem at hand.

I keep returning to Sturgeon's Law, "Ninety percent of everything is crap." In the case of the World Wide Web that percentage is even higher.

A large language model trained on all this crap is inevitably going to output crap.