[blagie]

You have a deep misunderstanding of how large-scale neural networks work.

I'm not sure how to draft a short response to address it, since it'd be essay-length with pictures.

There's a ton of internal state. That corresponds to some output. Your own brain can also have an internal state which says "I think this guy's an idiot, but I won't tell him" which corresponds to the output "You're smart," a deep learning network can be similar.

It's very easy to have a network where portions of the network estimating a true estimate of the world, and another portion which translates that into how to politely express it (or withhold information).

That's a vast oversimplification, but again, more would be more than fits in an HN comment.