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josefxyesterday at 7:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Counterpoint: The seahorse emoji. The output repeats the same simple pattern of giving a bad result and correcting it with another bad result until it runs out of attempts. There is no reasoning, no diagnosis, just the same error over and over again within a single session.


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becquerelyesterday at 7:45 AM

A system having terminal failure modes doesn't inherently negate the rest of the system. Human intelligences fall prey to plenty of similarly bad behaviours like addiction.

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throwaway-0001yesterday at 10:27 AM

You never had that coleague that says yes to everything and can’t get anything done? Same thing as seahorse.