A middle aged woman who said I had to be lying about being vegetarian because she couldn't believe it was possible for humans.
A coworker who insisted it was impossible to speed up some code in a daily standup, for me to come back to on the next stand up and announce I had sped it up from 15 minutes to 0.2 seconds.
Basically every time I hear the cliché "common sense", the claim being made is somewhere between totally wrong or just misleading in various situations.
My mum was a firm believer in homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, magic of crystals, called herself a Catholic, and had a statue of (IIRC) Vishnu with her collection of books on how to tell your fortune with viking rune stones.
At one point her dislike of "chemicals" came up, so my brother and I riffed on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide for a bit; she was engaged with the list of issues until we told her what that is, and never took on board the lesson that "one atom away from being bleach" means "is not bleach".
I was exactly the right age for Wakefield's claims about the MMR vaccine to convince me not to get it, and I only got around to doing the sensible thing several years after he was struck off the UK medical register and (if I understand right) downgraded from Doctor to Mr.
Compare what the British public as a whole say about Boris Johnson with what specifically the members of the Conservative Party say about him.
One of my friends in middle school was completely convinced that all gay men hospitalised each other from every sexual act.
I vastly overestimated my German language skills when I first got here, and my self-estimate of my skill level hasn't changed no matter how much better I get.
My brother was convinced that Captain America was the first MCU film to be released.
My father took several years to realise Google search results had a scroll bar and it wasn't just the top 3 that fitted onto his 640x480 screen. (He became a software developer almost as early as was possible, so that wasn't merely a case "old person can't use computer", unlike my gran who held the mouse at 90 degrees and expected it to still move as if she hadn't).
He also believed that water drained in particular directions due to the Coriolis effect, thanks to (what he didn't realise was) a magic trick performed somewhere near the equator some time when he visited Kenya.
Someone who got on a train from somewhere in London to Liverpool Lime St instead of to Liverpool Street station, and who only dared ask me when we'd arrive as we were half way through the country.
There was a young-Earth-creationist fundamentalist Baptist who I wasted half an hour arguing with on his microphone. Too many mistakes to count, and not just the mistake I made by wasting time engaging with his nonsense.
Every exam question I ever get wrong, every personality I misjudge, every scam I fall for, every troll I am baited by… even a few April Fool's jokes I didn't realise were jokes until years later.
I know the LLMs aren't human, but that specific flaw of "can be wrong without realising it, can be convinced by nonsense"? That flaw is very human.
It can't cringe over its mistakes like we can, so at least we've still got that.
Yes, I understand what you're trying to say. It's not unique or new, everytime a tech bro is told how an LLM actually works this is the goalpost they immediately move to. I've seen it a dozen times a day on every thread. It's hilarious to me that the immediate response is to delve into something that requires significantly more education and experience on to meaningfully pontificate.
A middle aged woman who said I had to be lying about being vegetarian because she couldn't believe it was possible for humans.
A coworker who insisted it was impossible to speed up some code in a daily standup, for me to come back to on the next stand up and announce I had sped it up from 15 minutes to 0.2 seconds.
Basically every time I hear the cliché "common sense", the claim being made is somewhere between totally wrong or just misleading in various situations.
My mum was a firm believer in homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, magic of crystals, called herself a Catholic, and had a statue of (IIRC) Vishnu with her collection of books on how to tell your fortune with viking rune stones.
At one point her dislike of "chemicals" came up, so my brother and I riffed on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide for a bit; she was engaged with the list of issues until we told her what that is, and never took on board the lesson that "one atom away from being bleach" means "is not bleach".
I was exactly the right age for Wakefield's claims about the MMR vaccine to convince me not to get it, and I only got around to doing the sensible thing several years after he was struck off the UK medical register and (if I understand right) downgraded from Doctor to Mr.
Compare what the British public as a whole say about Boris Johnson with what specifically the members of the Conservative Party say about him.
One of my friends in middle school was completely convinced that all gay men hospitalised each other from every sexual act.
I vastly overestimated my German language skills when I first got here, and my self-estimate of my skill level hasn't changed no matter how much better I get.
My brother was convinced that Captain America was the first MCU film to be released.
My father took several years to realise Google search results had a scroll bar and it wasn't just the top 3 that fitted onto his 640x480 screen. (He became a software developer almost as early as was possible, so that wasn't merely a case "old person can't use computer", unlike my gran who held the mouse at 90 degrees and expected it to still move as if she hadn't).
He also believed that water drained in particular directions due to the Coriolis effect, thanks to (what he didn't realise was) a magic trick performed somewhere near the equator some time when he visited Kenya.
Someone who got on a train from somewhere in London to Liverpool Lime St instead of to Liverpool Street station, and who only dared ask me when we'd arrive as we were half way through the country.
There was a young-Earth-creationist fundamentalist Baptist who I wasted half an hour arguing with on his microphone. Too many mistakes to count, and not just the mistake I made by wasting time engaging with his nonsense.
Every exam question I ever get wrong, every personality I misjudge, every scam I fall for, every troll I am baited by… even a few April Fool's jokes I didn't realise were jokes until years later.
I know the LLMs aren't human, but that specific flaw of "can be wrong without realising it, can be convinced by nonsense"? That flaw is very human.
It can't cringe over its mistakes like we can, so at least we've still got that.