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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSay gex
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    in about 90% of the cases

    And other complete bullshit statistics I ripped out of thin air.

    If you think even close to 90% of homophobes – or fuck it, 90% of cases if you think the countable closet gay instances are vastly unevenly distributed among a tiny 1% – are doing it because they’re secretly aching for gay sex/romance, you’re out of your fucking mind and need to take that shit back to high school psychology.

    Just like 90% of racists don’t secretly wish they were another race or 90% of transphobes aren’t closet trans, this is egregiously wrong and nonsensical.






  • If you can’t know if it’s right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?

    “If you can’t trust that a friend solved a sudoku puzzle for you without checking it first, why even bother?”

    The obvious answer being that it’s much easier to check the solution to a sudoku puzzle than it is to solve it yourself. If you have reasonable means to check compared to going out and starting from scratch, then even a modest enough rate of correct answers can save a ton of time. LLMs don’t have that for me, but that’s also because I’ve been doing research as a hobby for 10 years.

    If you know anything about computation theory, there’s an entire class of problems for which checking a solution is (relatively) trivial but finding a correct one is highly non-trivial.