Which is better?
- A machine which only tells useless truths
- A machine which only tells useful lies
i like snakes and a free palestine
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aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.
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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:
I guess it depends who the lies are useful to...? like are they useful to the machine owner and are they using that for good or are they useful to the machine and bad for everyone
Which is better?
- Machine A, which says machine B always tells the truth
- Machine B, which says machine A always tells lies
The twist: both machines were constructed independently of the other and with absolutely no knowledge of what the other machine says.
this is gonna make my door guard logic puzzles way more annoying. i'll take both.
Former, how is this even a contest? Doesn't everyone love learning and collecting useless information?1 The Useless Truths Machine is hours of great entertainment for the whole party, full of excitingly pointless trivia.
The latter is only good if everyone understands that what it says are lies. Unfortunately, we can't even get people to understand that LLMs are inherently Lie Machines and not omniscent actually-sapient knowledge bots, and people keep trying to use them to solve math problems or generate legal citations or replace employed humans that actually comprehend their fields of expertise. Even with all of the ethical problems with their training set ignored? LLMs, are by nature, in their originally intended academic purpose, meant solely to simulate the structure of language, not the meaning. They can't know the difference between truth and reality any more than a blind cave fish could know or comprehend that apples are red.
You could make a machine that is literally titled "I-ONLY-TELL-LIES-BOT 5000" and people would simply default to "well, it's a computer, that means it's smart" and let it inform their understanding of the world. God help us if the lies are "useful" in that they can be used to easily cover up any blame, crimes, and wrongdoings smoothly. Horrible idea! Should never be invented.
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Poster is aware that everyone does not, in fact, love collecting useless information.
