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interestpiquedyesterday at 7:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think AI literally makes even being wrong feel like getting something done. And that is the addictive part for people.


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cyanydeezyesterday at 8:51 PM

"Near-Miss" effect: https://harprehab.com/blogs/the-psychology-of-risk-why-gambl...

I believe that's the strongest pattern in LLM gambling. Was listening the Syntax and they described that "Even though theLLM did it wrong 4 times, that 5th time could be right, so why not just go!"; paraphrased of course.

It also explains the meta-LLM business, where all these CEO types put in some question and because the LLM just knows all these words, they believe it's valuable because it's "almost" correct, even when that last correction might be forever elusive because these machines arn't thinking, they're patterning a highly regularized language beneath the more loose descriptions.

There'll definitely be a winner in the AI bubble, but it'll be seen after it pops.

rsoto2yesterday at 7:55 PM

Look at all this text I have! It can't be worthless right?!

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Terr_yesterday at 7:41 PM

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