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FaceDeer

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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

-- Charles Babbage

This confusion would appear to continue to this day.

Why is it even remotely surprising or unexpected that an AI that's summarizing web search results for you can sometimes give false, misleading, or dangerous answers? The search results contain false, misleading, and dangerous answers sometimes. The problem is not the AI. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing.

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Only to the extent that Google's search results already had Reddit data in them. This AI is summarizing the search results it's being given, not making stuff up on its own.

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But it doesn't suck. The AI is summarizing the search results it's getting. If the search results say things that are wrong, the summary will also be wrong. Do you want the AI to somehow magically be the arbiter of objective reality? How would it do that?

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It’s a solution that doesn’t work, put in place to solve a problem that nobody has.

If that's really true then it'll go away.

Have you considered that maybe not everyone has the same problems you do, and some people actually find this sort of thing handy?

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According to Wikipedia there's ~600,000 Sherpas in the world. Are you seriously saying that the only thing they can do to avoid poverty is work as Everest guides (or have an extended family member doing it)?

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So a few hundred Sherpa (profession) would be completely unable to find other jobs, like their hundreds of thousands of bretheren have somehow managed to do.

Look, I don't want people to die on Everest. But nobody is forced to go there, not even the Sherpas. They choose to go there. They know what they're getting into and what the risks are. If you're going to feel bad for them then you should also feel bad for the climbers, and vice versa.

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