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by BosunoB 94 days ago
The whole idea of just sending "no" to an LLM without additional context is kind of silly. It's smart enough to know that if you just didn't want it to proceed, you would just not respond to it.

The fact that you responded to it tells it that it should do something, and so it looks for additional context (for the build mode change) to decide what to do.
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furyofantares 94 days ago
I agree the idea of just sending "no" to an LLM without any task for it to do is silly. It doesn't need to know that I don't want it to implement it, it's not waiting for an answer.

It's not smart enough to know you would just not respond to it, not even close. It's been trained to do tasks in response to prompts, not to just be like "k, cool", which is probably the cause of this (egregious) error.

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ForHackernews 94 days ago
> It's smart enough to know that if you just didn't want it to proceed, you would just not respond to it.

No it absolutely is not. It doesn't "know" anything when it's not responding to a prompt. It's not consciously sitting there waiting for you to reply.

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BosunoB 94 days ago
I didn't mean to imply that it was. But when you reply to it, if you just say "no" then it's aware that you could've just not responded, and that normally you would never respond to it unless you were asking for something more.

It just doesn't make any sense to respond no in this situation, and so it confuses the LLM and so it looks for more context.

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alpaca128 94 days ago
> it's aware that you could've just not responded

It's not aware of anything and doesn't know that a world outside the context window exists.

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BosunoB 94 days ago
No, it has knowledge of what it is and how it is used.

I'm guessing you and the other guy are taking issue with the words "aware of" when I'm just saying it has knowledge of these things. Awareness doesn't have to imply a continual conscious state.

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saint_yossarian 93 days ago
I think to many people awareness does imply consciousness, i.e. the thing that is aware of the knowledge.
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BosunoB 93 days ago
Meh I looked up the definition:

"having knowledge or perception of a situation or fact."

They do have knowledge of the info, but they don't have perception of it.

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