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by topaz0 241 days ago
LLMs by contrast love to admit their mistakes and self-flagellate, and then go on to not correct them. Seems like a worse tradeoff.
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It's true that the big public-facing chatbots love to admit to mistakes.

It's not obvious to me that they're better at admitting their mistakes. Part of being good at admitting mistakes is recognizing when you haven't made one. That humans tend to lean too far in that direction shouldn't suggest that the right amount of that behavior is... less than zero.

Not when your goal is to create ASI: Artificial Sycophant Intelligence