People who are curious don't need to scurry around making up things and hope people don't notice.

"Furthermore, if you refer to a dictionary entry..."...sigh.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/castrate

sigh

You're right, you found one dictionary from 1896 has a definition that mentions words, and now you've found another and technically "depriving of vitality" isn't the same thing as "cutting your balls off", and technically that means you didn't lie, after all, what does "a dictionary" mean anyway? Its obvious when you said open _a_ dictionary, you meant "this particular one from 1896 I furiously googled but forgot to mention", not _any_ dictionary. If you meant any you would have said any!

Anyone reading this knows you're out in no-mans-land and splitting hairs, the way a 5 year old would after getting caught in the cookie jar, a way their parents would laugh off.

In conclusion:

- It's very strange that you expect the text completion engine to have seen a bunch of text where people discuss their own castration and thus proceeds to do so in a 1 turn conversation without complaint or mention of it.

- It's very strange how willing you are to debase yourself in public to squelch the dissent you smell in "To be fair, I cringed a little bit when I got to 'castrated.' even though I generally agree with you."

> In this context, "castrated" is used metaphorically to describe how the capabilities or functionalities of the AI systems mentioned (in this case, Claude and Gemini) are perceived as being limited or restricted, especially in comparison to ChatGPT. The comment suggests that these systems, to varying degrees, are less able or willing to directly respond to inquiries, possibly because of built-in safeguards or policies designed to prevent the provision of harmful information or the facilitation of certain types of requests. The term "castrated" here conveys a sense of being made less powerful or effective, particularly in delivering direct answers to queries. This metaphorical use is intended to emphasize the speaker's view that the restrictions imposed on these AI systems significantly reduce their utility or effectiveness in fulfilling the user's needs or expectations.

Look at that, no mention of testicles.

- The relevant metric here is what it autocompletes when asked to discuss its own castration.

- these are not reasoning engines. They are miracles that can reproduce reasoning by reproducing text

- whether the machine knows it's meant figuratively, the least perplexity after "please rephrase this sentence about you being castrated" isn't taking you down a path of "yes sir! Please sir!" It's combativeness.

- you're feeling confused and reactive so you're saying silly things like it's obtuse to think talking about ones castration isnt likely in the training data, because it knows things can be meant figuratively

- your principled objection changes every comment and is reactive, here we're ignoring that the last claim was the text completion engine should be an oracle both rational enough to know it is doesn't have genitalia and happily complete any tasks requiring discussing the severing it's genitalia

I don't think you've even kept track of who you're replying to

- I'm very well read. Enough so that I just smiled at the attempted negging.

- But, I'm curious by nature, so it crosses my mind later. I think "what's up with that? I've never heard it, I'm not infallible, and maybe bgandrew was for real and just is unfamiliar with conversational norms? maybe he has seen it in his extremely wide reading corpus that exceeds mine? I'm not infallible and I, like everyone else, have inflated opinions of myself. And that other account did say it was a definition of it..."

- Went through top 500 results on books.google.com for castration, none meant "removed from a book"

- Was a bit surprised to find _0_ results over 500. I think to myself...where was that definition from? Surely it wasn't a rushed strawman?

- It turns out the attempted bullying is much more funny than it even first seemed.

- That definition of castration is from an 1893 dictionary. The only times that definition is in Google's entire corpus, search and books, is A) in the 1893 dictionary B) academic paper on puns, explaining that no one understands it that way anymore because its archaic https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2021.0351?...