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Re:Constellations are younger than continents by ben_w on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:09PM (#38765674)
Even before LLMs were dismissed as "stochastic parrots" (and even more so since then), I find myself noticing when people dismiss the intellectual capacity of entire groups.

"Mickey Mouse degrees", https://xkcd.com/793/, the attitude displayed by the bully in "Zero for Conduct" and similar IRL dismissals of the entire ME area in the post 9/11 discourse, mid-Brexit politicians saying the country had had enough of experts, some of my fist girlfriends' anecdotes from her childhood, town v gown, …

Re:Constellations are younger than continents by firebot on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:13PM (#38766658)
I don't follow.
Re:Constellations are younger than continents by ben_w on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:25PM (#38766783)
You, like all my examples, are blithely dismissing everyone who does understand a subject that you don't understand.