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Re:Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of larg... by tsimionescu on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:27AM (#39502099)
The existence of such a saying means little: it is uncontroversially true that humans often do know what they don't know.

For example, I know for sure that I don't know how long I will live. This disproves the saying.

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Re:Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of larg... by c22 on Sunday February 25, 2024 @12:02PM (#39502448)
The saying isn't implying that there aren't any things you know you don't know, it's saying that some of the things you don't know are not even conceivable to you without knowing more.

You know the question "how long will I live?" And you know this question has an answer which is unknown to you. But there also exist other questions that you don't even know to ask.

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Re:Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of larg... by cpuguy83 on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:58AM (#39502402)
The saying is not "I don't know anything that I don't know", which would be self contradictory. It disproves nothing.

ChatGPT "knows" that it doesn't know anything after a certain date, for whatever it means to "know" something.

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