Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole
If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6BXdesaw
Podcast: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/e884f2ff/general-purpose-is-an-accountability-loophole
Because a calculator is a device made for a specific purpose, our trust in it would be immediately corrupted if it were to give an incorrect answer. It would be useless.
If you take away the specific purpose you also take away the criteria to determine if something works or not.
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@fasterandworse I agree on fundamentally mistrusting LLM outputs. They are closer to search engines (though much less transparent); the calculator comparison doesn't make sense to me.
