@jonny 100% agree.
It also makes me a little uncomfortable with the role of Wikipedia or StackExchange within culture in terms of critical thinking vs just taking whatever at face value without any thought or consideration.
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@jonny 100% agree. It also makes me a little uncomfortable with the role of Wikipedia or StackExchange within culture in terms of critical thinking vs just taking whatever at face value without any thought or consideration. 8 comments
@Cheeseness for the public record in case of any federation weirdness i typed this at the exact same time, mind twinning https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111328144718469983 @Cheeseness oh wait i forgot i mentioned stackexchange and wikipedia in the first post and thought we had both come up with those as examples of informational institutions we were uncomfortable with for this exact reason, so not as one in a million as i was thinking but still yes mind twins @Cheeseness @jonny ChatGPT is a bit like StackOverflow in that it will turn up a lot of bullshit and half-truths and it's up to the user to sift through that and find the thing that's potentially useful: you usually can't just copy-past @Selena @jonny To be clear about where I'm coming from, I'd be wary of working with anybody who doesn't even think of glancing over cited sources for further reading when processing the content of a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia exists to summarise knowledge, and observing others assume that there isn't more to think about/learn is what makes me uncomfortable. It's not quite "question everything" so much as "be interested/engaged with the stuff one is discovering." ChatGPT is definitely not like StackOverflow. There are no consequences for wrong answers. Nobody downvotes bad answers. Nobody gets points for helpful answers. |
@Cheeseness wow that is an incredible jinx moment