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The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
LLM "hallucinations" arise, regularly, because (a) they literally don't know the difference between truth and falsehood, (b) they don't have reliably reasoning processes to guarantee that their inferences are correct and (c) they are incapable of fact-checking their own work. Instead, everything that LLMs say -- true or false -- comes from the same... See more
La Pareidolia es un caso específico de Apofenia: es cuando vemos imágenes significativas en lugares al azar.
Alfonso Araujo • Contra la estupidez y otras reflexiones acerca de la condición humana (Spanish Edition)
If we had a magic wand we would find out exactly what proportion of these outcomes were caused by actions that are repeatable, versus the role of random risk and luck that swayed those actions one way or the other. But we don’t have a magic wand. We have brains that prefer easy answers without much appetite for nuance.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
When we limit our thinking to what our senses provide, to what is immediate, we descend to the pure animal level in which our reasoning powers are neutralized. We are no longer aware of why or how things come about. We imagine that some successful scheme that has lasted a few months can only get better. We no longer give thought to the possible con
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