alt Hacker News> The original comment had the exact verbose hedging you are asking for when discussing technical subjects.
Is this how you normally speak when you find a bug in software? You hedge language around marketing talking points?
I sincerely doubt that. When people find bugs in software they just say that the software is buggy.
But for LLM there's this ridiculous roundabout about "pattern matching behaving as if it wanted something" which is a roundabout way to aacribe intentionality.
If you said this about your OS people qould look at you funny, or assume you were joking.
Sorry, I don't think I am in the wrong for asking people to think more critically about this shit.
> Is this how you normally speak when you find a bug in software? You hedge language around marketing talking points?
I'm sorry, what are you asking for exactly? You were upset because you hallucinated that I said the LLM "wanted" something, and now you're upset that I used the exact technically correct language you specifically requested because it's not how people "normally" speak?
Sounds like the constant is just you being upset, regardless of what people say.
People say things like "the program is trying to do X", when obviously programs can't try to do a thing, because that implies intention, and they don't have agency. And if you say your OS is lying to you, people will treat that as though the OS is giving you false information when it should have different true information. People have done this for years. Here's an example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2437149/...