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scientism | 1 year ago

I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.

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samus|1 year ago

Such damage is creeping and the brain can just hallucinate the blank patches in the vision away, until only like 10% of the retina is left and it just doesn't work anymore. These days, dumbass laserheads are the most likely to suffer from that problem.

It's amazing how much of our conscious experience is hallucination, and yet a lot of people are disparaging LLMs for doing just the same...

crashmat|1 year ago

probably because when humans pay full attention and think clearly they can not hallucinate for 99% of things they can sense (disregarfing optical illusion), but there is no 'pay attention and dont hallucinate' switch for LLMs.