[webdevver]

> It feels so much better to ask humans a question then the machine

I could not disagree more! With pesky humans, you have all sorts of things to worry about:

- is my question stupid? will they think badly of me if i ask it?

- what if they dont know the answer? did i just inadvertantly make them look stupid?

- the question i have is related to their current work... i hope they dont see me as a threat!

and on and on. asking questions in such a manner as to elicit the answer, without negative externalities, is quite the art form as i'm sure many stack overflow users will tell you. many word orderings trigger a 'latent space' which activates the "umm, why are you even doing this?" with the implication begin "you really are stupid!", totally useless to the question-asker and a much more frustrating time-waster than even the most moralizing LLM.

with LLMs, you don't have to play these 'token games'. you throw your query at it, and irrespective of the word order, word choice, or the nture of the question - it gives you a perfectly neutral response, or at worst politely refuses to answer.

[skydhash]

That’s a level of paranoia that I can’t really understand. I just do my research, then for information I can’t access, don’t know how to access, or can’t comprehend, I reach out. People have the right to not want to share information. If it’s in a work setting and the situation is blocking, I notify my supervisor.

> many word orderings trigger a 'latent space' which activates the "umm, why are you even doing this?" with the implication begin "you really are stupid!"

You may have heard of the XY situation when people asks a Y question only because they have an incorrect answer to X. A question has a goal (unless rethorical) and to the person being asked, it may be confusing. You may have a valid reason to go against common sense, but if the other person is not your tutor or a fellow researcher, he may not be willing to accommodate you and spend his time for a goal he have no context about.

Remember the car wash question for LLMs? Some phrasing have the pattern of a trick question and that’s another thing people watch out for.