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I wrote a sci fi short story in 2016 that covered this. The way we trust things is gradual and never complete. It has almost nothing to do with abstract concepts like “understanding”. blog.danfinlay.com/solomons-wak...

blog.danfinlay.comSolomon’s Wake"I find the defendant guilty, to be sentenced to death." Solomon declared in his famously compassionate tone.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

i hate this

Dan Finlay

@danfinlay.com

I mean, our understanding is a special thing we learn to trust! How amazing to understand something! Ever have that experience where you understand something once, maybe derived a formula, but then you just trusted it? Your understanding substituted for a trusted memory?

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Dan Finlay

@danfinlay.com

And then OF COURSE we all learn to trust things without understanding them. You eat things without understanding the supply chain every day, I say with certainty because you’re on the internet.

Dan Finlay

@danfinlay.com

People constantly moving the goal post with AI evals simply reek of not actually handling the material, which is basically negligent, because while some distrust is merited, the line increasingly must be felt and experienced, and cannot be understood in that firm way.