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DiogenesKynikostoday at 11:02 AM1 replyview on HN

It's only "statistically generated" in the same way that your brain is just "neurons firing." That's the low-level description of what's happening, but on a higher level, it's correct to say that it's being smug.


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antisthenestoday at 3:50 PM

> it's correct to say that it's being smug.

It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge.

A machine has no such imperative, so what you call 'being smug' is statistical mimicry.