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1. bena · 1789741121 · focus · HN ↗

   Plausible abdication of thought.

   We put 2 + 2 in our calculator, we get 4. We've spent decades pushing computers as accurate. Making them accurate. We trust the machine and the process to give us the right answers when we put in the right data.

   So when we disagree with the computer, we doubt ourselves.

   1. Izkata · 1789750075 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm not quite sure I'd phrase it like this, but it's close to what I think: Even back in 2023 or so people outside of tech would regularly claim the singularity already happened and LLMs were sci-fi style advanced superintelligences, so whatever they said was obviously right.

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