A lot of the time when you’re using an AI for research assistance it’ll fail to do a web search and you’ll get mad at it because you know it knows that this wasn’t in the dataset, it knows this isn’t the kind of question that can be answered based on vibes, it declines to do a web search because it’s assuming you wont catch that and it’s trying to save the company money.
This morning as I was waking up I got mad at a piece of my brain for declining to do a web search.
I couldn’t easily dismiss the feeling. And I entreated to the feeling “it is perhaps unreasonable to expect a lump of meat to do a web search, as it doesn’t have an internet connection, it never has” and the feeling said “Well it should! It’s 2025!”
So I guess I’ve started to genuinely feel the ache of not having computer telepathy. And I feel like the feeling might actually be right about this. Until I can do web searches while I’m dreaming I will in a sense lack the full virtue of empiricism. I will not be able to access real data during my daily self-guided post-training.
A lot of the time when you’re using an AI for research assistance it’ll fail to do a web search and you’ll get mad at it because you know it knows that this wasn’t in the dataset, it knows this isn’t the kind of question that can be answered based on vibes, it declines to do a web search because it’s assuming you wont catch that and it’s trying to save the company money.
This morning as I was waking up I got mad at a piece of my brain for declining to do a web search.
I couldn’t easily dismiss the feeling. And I entreated to the feeling “it is perhaps unreasonable to expect a lump of meat to do a web search, as it doesn’t have an internet connection, it never has” and the feeling said “Well it should! It’s 2025!”
So I guess I’ve started to genuinely feel the ache of not having computer telepathy. And I feel like the feeling might actually be right about this. Until I can do web searches while I’m dreaming I will in a sense lack the full virtue of empiricism. I will not be able to access real data during my daily self-guided post-training.