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Re:Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I writ... by lelanthran on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:44AM (#47996410)
> Yes, I agree. If you tell humans "do not think of pink elephants", they are more likely to think about pink elephants.

> Therefore, you must not use humans for any important work.

Counterpoint, all important work done in the history of humans were done by... humans, and yet I see no pink elephants created as a result of telling humans "do not think of pink elephants".

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Re:Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I writ... by jfreds on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:31AM (#47996790)
I’ve seen loads of very bad/wrong code written by humans
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Re:Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I writ... by lelanthran on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:56AM (#47996986)
> I’ve seen loads of very bad/wrong code written by humans

Have you seen any pink elephants?

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Re:Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I writ... by jychang on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:48AM (#48006169)
Yes, I see them all the time when I drink lots of alcohol [1]. This is a common issue with humans called "hallucination" which proves that humans are unreliable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

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