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iamgiohtoday at 12:12 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, it's all about linguistic relativism, right? If you can define "user harm" in terms of things it does understand, I think you could get something that works


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emsigntoday at 1:20 AM

The idea that language influences the world view isn't new, it was speculated upon long before artificial intelligence was a thing, but it explicitely speculates about having an influence on the world view of humans. It doesn't postulate that language itself creates a worldview in whatever system processes text. Or else books would have a worldview.

It's a categeory error to apply it to an LLM. Language works on humans, because we share a common experience as humans, it's not just a logical description of thoughts, it's also an arrangement of symbols that stand for experiences a human can have. That why humans are able to empathically experience a story, because it triggers much more than just rational thought inside their brains.

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