Post #2248266
2026-03-29 20:55 UTC
@jneen@unstable.systems regarding the ELIZA effect, I think it points at a more basic cognitive error than just "having no reference point to fall back on". so much of our own understanding of how we think is grounded in language that it's hard to believe that something that can (convincingly mimic) talk *can't* think.
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@zwol@masto.hackers.town 2026-03-29 20:58
@jneen@unstable.systems but i went through a master's program in cognitive science and one of the things the intro classes really hammered on is: a great deal of the work the human brain does isn't based on language at all. or vision, which is the other thing we're really *aware* of relying on. and -- not coincidentally -- that work is the work we struggle to write algorithms *of any kind* to handle.