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by rsynnott 76 days ago
> When was the last time a person took responsibility for the bad outcome you got as a direct consequence of following their advice?

... I mean, the LLM certainly isn't going to do that.

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Yes, exactly - while humans are "only" highly unlikely to do so.

Wasn't that the premise?

There's X% probability to get unaccountable bad advice from a human; Y% probability of same from LLM.

But the stakes are different not because X!=Y. In fact, those probabilities might as well be equal. It's not like one can do much more than vaguely intuit them.

The stakes are different because the LLM is not considered a person, and therefore, one risks less by asking it a question.

(Ostensibly, anyway.)

>Other humans are available.

Sure. Available to miss my point entirely. And then to be upset by my attempts to point it out more precisely. And then downhill from there.