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They're members of a religion which says that if you do math in your head the right way you'll be correct about everything, and so they think they're correct about everything.

They also secondarily believe everyone has an IQ which is their DBZ power level; they believe anything they see that has math in it, and IQ is math, so they believe anything they see about IQ. So if you avoid trying to find out your own IQ you can just believe it's really high and then you're good.

Unfortunately this lead them to the conclusion that computers have more IQ than them and so would automatically win any intellectual DBZ laser beam fight against them / enslave them / take over the world.

My Grand Unified Theory of Scott Aaronson is that he doesn't have a theory of mind. On subjects far less incendiary than Zionism, he simply fails to recognize that people who share his background or interests can think differently than he does.

The lead author wrote a summary thread.

From p. 137:

The most consistent and significant behavioral divergence between the groups was observed in the ability to quote one's own essay. LLM users significantly underperformed in this domain, with 83% of participants (15/18) reporting difficulty quoting in Session 1, and none providing correct quotes. This impairment persisted albeit attenuated in subsequent sessions, with 6 out of 18 participants still failing to quote correctly by Session 3. [...] Search Engine and Brain-only participants did not display such impairments. By Session 2, both groups achieved near-perfect quoting ability, and by Session 3, 100% of both groups' participants reported the ability to quote their essays, with only minor deviations in quoting accuracy.

Or you could read the entirety of the first comment in this thread and see how it was not saying that. Notice the part that begins, "However, I believe there is an important difference to chatbots..."

No Nut Neuravember

Does master own a Sawzall?

Fuck it, repeating my joke from the earlier thread: Inviting the most pedantic nerds on Earth to critique your chatbot slop is a level of begging to be pwned that’s on par with claiming the female orgasm is a myth.

My tax prep software definitely has a mode called "give me Deus Ex"

yes you need to read things to understand them

OK, here's your free opportunity to spend more time doing that. Bye now.

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