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The word is *lessons*
Using separate language allows for separate behavior.
When a person speaks a corporate language instead of regular-person language, they behave in corporate ways instead of regular-person ways.
Which means they’d do things and accept things as a corporate person that regular-person they would not accept.
No Learnings
nolearnings.com
Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that our value as human beings is determined by how hard we work and how much money we make. Elizabeth Anderson explains how this evolved, why it pervades everything, and why it sucks.
A Pro-Worker Work Ethic the Gray Area With Sean Illing
Apple Podcasts
So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develops an AI that uses GPT as its language comprehension *component*, but does this higher level stuff that we *actually* want sitting on top of it. Because in my opinion, it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an *amazing* level of comprehension of what a series of words means. The problem is, that's *all* it is really doing.
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted
ycombinator.com
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