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jubilantitoday at 1:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Feels like a No True Scotsman fallacy.


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1718627440today at 2:07 PM

How so?

The property Scotsman is existing a priori and then a causality to behaviour is assumed. But here the term is defined by behaviour.

pdpitoday at 2:14 PM

There's multiple ways to program using LLMs, so using different words for different styles is a useful distinction.

Of course, you absolutely can build a No True Scotsman argument on top of that distinction, but I don't think that's what GP was doing.

danlitttoday at 3:03 PM

By that logic every appeal to the truth is a No True Scotsman fallacy.