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danielblnyesterday at 6:16 AM3 repliesview on HN

It provides a serviceable analog for discussing model behavior. It certainly provides more value than the dead horse of "everyone is a slave to anthropomorphism".


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travisgriggsyesterday at 6:30 AM

Where is Pratchett when we need him? I wonder how he would have chose to anthropomorphize anthropomorphism. A sort of meta anthropomorphization.

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jayd16yesterday at 6:31 AM

How do you figure? It seems dangerously misleading, to me.

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krainboltgreeneyesterday at 6:21 AM

It does provide that, but currently I keep hearing people use it not as an analog but as a direct description.