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by PaulHoule 1183 days ago
LLMs are indifferent to the truth. They just "make shit up", it is true sometimes and other times it isn't.

Truth is the most problematic concept in philosophy, go see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

to see how bad it is in logic and mathematics, go into the social world and I'd say that introducing the concept of "truth" itself erodes the truth.

2 comments

i think a better link than your link would be The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
objective truth surely exists. surely, lol, three stooges, shirely temple