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thedevilslawyer08/01/20252 repliesview on HN

Let's take the example you have listed:

1) where would you get the death toll from? What would be the sources of truth?

2) Are there conflicting sources?

3) if yes, what is your expectation for the correct response?


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mattigames08/01/2025

They are all controversial matters, therefore conflicting sources are not only expected but desired to be informed by the LLMs when asking such matters, the report by well-funded likely-biased sources (e.g. Israel government) would obviously needed to be given less credibility, estimates that are widely different that all the rest would also need to be given less credibility, and so on.

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k4rli08/01/2025

Perhaps universal truth or objective facts simply don't exist anymore? Or have they ever?

Tiananmen square might have been bad, not too familiar with Asian happenings, but so are post-WW2 conflicts started by western nations.