Post #2416521 · Elektrine

2026-01-15 21:28 UTC

@lokeloski@mastodon.social It's the Gell-Mann amnesia effect all over again. ----------- The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a claimed cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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@joepbc@mastodon.social 2026-01-16 04:03

@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social @lokeloski@mastodon.social or more generally the egocentric bias. Veritasium has a nice video on this: https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I?si=ZV6CuklywzLekwHd

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@AT1ST@mstdn.ca 2026-01-16 04:26

@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social @lokeloski@mastodon.social It's one of the reasons that, when pointing out that I do not like Generative LLMs for the work they output, I do emphasize that it's not just *my* programming expertise that I feel this for. Like, I feel the same way for books; if you wrote it with an LLM, and we can see because a prompt made it into the printed version, that tells me that you did not read what you claimed to have "Wrote" with an LLM - why should I read it then, when I know it can do the same thing it can do for math, or coding, or images?

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