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The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
The human brain is so desperate to find meaning in things that it will make a story out of any two random things put together.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
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
The problem is that probability theory sometimes lets us calculate a chance which is, indeed, too tiny to be worth the mental space to keep track of it—but by that time, you’ve already calculated it. People mix up the map with the territory, so that on a gut level, tracking a symbolically described probability feels like “a chance worth keeping tra
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
It seems that it comes very naturally for us to decide that when things go wrong, it must be because of some bad individual with bad intentions. We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening.