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2025-08-09 21:37 UTC

@denschub@mastodon.schub.social Reminds me of this meme that is floating about. Which these days is usually followed by a complaint that the characters are ignoring context, refusing to do any further research, and reducing the world to a false "both sides have a point" position rather than trying to derive the actual truth. With regards to the tennis ball, it would short circuit my brain a bit if 198 people claimed a value I’ve now measured to be false. Is their agenda to troll me, or do I doubt my own inferrences?

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@denschub@mastodon.schub.social 2025-08-09 22:03

@amyworrall@mastodon.social I mean, my example was a bit sneaky. Color names specifically are a very cultural construct (some languages/cultures don't have names for some colors, or have names for colors that English doesn't have a name for). For tennis balls specifically, a lot of people would claim they're green. But also, it's not too uncommon to find a group of people who say weird things in unison. If you'd ask "is my measles vaccine safe?", you'd get very different answers from a "science" and an "antivax" subreddit, for example. Having context of where the information came from is important in a lot of cases - and not only do LLMs lose that context, a lot of them, especially ChatGPT, actually have a cultural image of being "trustworthy", so, uhm.

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