It’s not surprising that a society that values confidence more than competence would become excited by machines that generate text that sounds confident and is entirely wrong.
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It’s not surprising that a society that values confidence more than competence would become excited by machines that generate text that sounds confident and is entirely wrong.
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Cluster Fckureplied to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) last edited by
@david_chisnall I think in our pre-teen childhood development we see the two as the same, competence and confidence, and then in our teens we discover the shortcuts, and feign the confidence. What baffles me is how rewarding confidence over competence remains, all throughout mid adulthood. Is it a form of collective arrested development where lots of us live off the confident persona? Then in later adulthood comes enlightenment and we finally reward ourselves and start to call the BS
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Alistair Kreplied to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) last edited by
@david_chisnall and also that a society that values punishing cheaters more than nurturing good learner would become excited by machines that detect machine-generated text yet fail miserably at doing so
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@clusterfcku @david_chisnall One of the problems is that people are so sensitive to receiving criticism, which means they get less and less pushback against their mistakes and bad ideas, resulting in them continuing to be confident but not competent. It’s a vicious cycle that isn’t broken.
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@libroraptor @david_chisnall In theory you get rewarded for good learning by getting a good job so you can afford a good lifestyle over those who did not. So-called late-stage-capitalism clearly has a different opinion.
