[ta93754829]

When you dig into it, there are very few truths. Who "won" the last US election? Where did covid come from?

Humans will argue the right answer until their last days. It's frustrating how on-the-fence chatgpt can be. It's pretty interesting too, because in a professional environment one of the most important things you need to do is have an opinion and take a position otherwise you can't execute.

[kristopolous]

That's not true though. Every word of this sentence, for instance, has a correct spelling and grammatical rules as to where the words and punctuation go.

To English learners, that might be very difficult. I'm learning a new language now and I feel the pain. The textbook and instructor, in this case, is way more correct than the collective opinion of my fellow students.

The vast majority of things actually follow this pattern instead. Knowing what a programming function would output given a set of inputs isn't some gray area world of opinion.

When things are unknown, such as say Covid origin, again there's people way beyond my pay-grade doing investigative work here. Youtube comment threads and tiktok opinions are actually not as valuable as peer reviewed scholarship on the topic EVEN IF there's say, 10 youtube comments saying one thing and 5 papers in the Lancet saying another. The youtube comments don't become correct by volume here.

It's not some giant equal playing field.

[reverius42]

> Every word of this sentence, for instance, has a correct spelling and grammatical rules as to where the words and punctuation go.

As a linguistic descriptivist, hahahahahahahaha.