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danjc • today at 5:59 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thank you for calling this out. It annoys me to no end that the default mode is to ascribe intent to a function.


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wongarsu • today at 7:55 AM

To some degree that's just how the English language works. "to hide" can be a passive effect (the hedge hides a garden) or an action with intent (the robber hides the weapon). Usually we distinguish between them based on whether the subject of the sentence has agency. But that breaks down with LLMs. Same as in sentences about the brain