[Jensson]

Asking the LLM to correct itself doesn't improve answers since they will happily add errors to correct answers when asked to correct it. That makes it different from humans, humans can iterate and get better, our current LLMs can't.

> But if you stop them just there, an error persists

But humans doesn't stop there when they are making things that needs to be reliably correct. When errors aren't a big deal humans make a lot of errors, but when errors costs life humans become very reliable by taking more time and looking things over. They still sometimes makes mistakes that kills people, but very rarely.