| > If I suspect a fallacy I will cite it in your face And my cat will yell before his dinner time. We all have useless impulses. The question is if it accomplishes anything. Also, you didn’t suspect anything. A language model thought for you. Your role was in copying and pasting. Not understanding or commanding. > disagree with your analysis of the fallacies that the AI identified Sure. For what it’s worth, I ran your comment—over drinks—past a professor of
philosophy who has published peer-reviewed research out of Columbia. He said I was too gentle. It’s gibberish of a form that wouldn’t make it past undergrad formal logic. We have no doubt you and plenty of others will regurgitate AI tripe with confidence. (This happened with television and organised religion in the past.) And I’ll admit I haven’t found, yet, how to profit off that common temptation other than investing in the companies that facilitate it. But I think I will, because folks who will double down on hallucinated constructs are commonplace. > can you all please tell me just one more time that the "appeal to corporate omniscience" isn't in the Wikipedia list of fallacies It’s in no philosophy text, either. Because it is, in itself, an appeal to authority. (Incorporation isn’t a logical primitive. It is a social construct.) > which is just as arbitrary a source as a good LLM To the extent a peer-reviewed paper is the same as a grad student, sure. (There is also rich irony in a corporate LLM hallucinating a fallacy about corporate omniscience. The stupid part, here, is the doubling down.) |
Man I'm legit super interested in this. Roast me a bit more please. Why is it such an amateur line of thinking? The OP's argument is f*cking circular, you should discard the argument completely if you care about logic, no? I don't see it, please help me see it. TEACH ME.
> Also, you didn’t suspect anything. A language model thought for you. Your role was in copying and pasting. Not understanding or commanding.
No, you are assuming, why are you assuming I can't think? Notice, once more, the use of the basic ad hominem (how can I not mention this?). Why do you bring up your peer-reviewed friend? This is the appeal to authority fallacy again, are you freaking kidding me? Why don't you share with us why my line of reasoning is childish or whatever, instead of "my PhD friend said no"?
I smelled circular logic and decided to check with Claude - that's it buddy! It should NOT be relevant whether or not I copied bits from AI, because it is another fallacy. Would you pick on me if I had consulted a dictionary or used Wikipedia to double check fallacies?
> It’s in no philosophy text, either. Because it is, in itself, an appeal to authority. (Incorporation isn’t a logical primitive. It is a social construct.)
100% I will eat shit on this one detail only, of course the LLM went off the rails a little bit here, but why did everyone get so stuck on a silly rephrasing/aliasing of canonical-form fallacies, when everyone can clearly sense the canonical-form that it points to.