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He passed away, John Young

I used to be freely optimistic about humanity, now it’s becoming more and more forced. The percentage of people who are naturally kool-aid drinkers appears to have remained fairly constant over time, but AI will change that, the shadows will multiply. There’ll be shadows of shadows. Shadows all day. Shadows in the way, even when you’re searching for the light, trying to do right.

Yes, you personally. Do you believe you could be fooled by any LLM, unable to ascertain if the words came a human or not? By simply asking questions and getting responses?

Do you believe any LLMs pass the test? You personally?

I guess I disagree. The ‘easy to spot’ never goes away, regardless of configuration, so long as the conversation continues. In the spirit of this site, good-faith intellectual curiosity, I will refrain from continuing this conversation in a manner which would reveal your nature as a human or not, and remove the hint of taste of that palpable irony from my mouth (I joke) but it wouldn’t add anything to the discussion anyway. But it would be trivial. Am I making any sense?

I guess it’s the complete lack of any intentionality, if I were to try and describe it better. It’s just so apparent that, well, here I am submitting an Ask HN trying to understand. I hope I’m not coming across as flippant, I don’t mean to, it’s genuine curiosity, I just don’t understand how anyone could defend their position that any LLM ‘passes’.

It appears you don’t believe any pass the test. I’m more trying to ask of someone who does believe they pass, ‘how can you?’ To me it’s one of those things that‘s so painstakingly obvious that the inherent limitations of words comes into play when trying to describe it.

Meant to reply to you

Watched the Tencent adaptation, was great. Made it through one episode of the Netflix version so far, is horrible.

The Netflix version is almost like a constant ‘danger to manifold’ from The Fast and The Furious.

I don't think Socrates would be seeking a 'full-time SWE position' were he alive today.