There is a basic difficulty with censorship in a civilization that still wishes to regard itself as intelligent. Old-fashioned censorship was at least ontologically honest. The king informed you that you were not permitted to insult the king. The Church informed you that certain propositions were heretical. The censor crossed out the offending paragraph and…
Tag: Consensus
Consensus Ensures Mediocrity
You ask the LLM a question and it “knows” things to helpfully tell you what’s true. The vendor pitch is a little more sophisticated, calling it a reasoning engine, promising it can “help you think” and “accelerate knowledge work.” But the actual machine you interact with, day to day, is neither an oracle nor philosopher,…