Nilay Patel
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And some people are very happy with that.
And that is far more trust than they have in even the other people who live in their houses, right?
Like we see that play out all the time.
The downside of that is that these systems hallucinate at high rates.
that they are tuned to please you, and we can see that all over the place, that they work differently, they layer differently.
In fact, the chances of them getting something wrong kind of exponentially increase as you stack them up in these ways.
How have you protected against that here?
Because it feels like, yes, you can increase this sense of agency and trust, but the downside is this thing might just be making it up as it goes along.
I don't know that I have a lot of trust in public justice system.
What I know about those guys is that they get old and sometimes they go away.
I wish more of them would go away at higher rates, but sometimes they go away.
Sometimes they get replaced by newer, different people with different biases.
And the system replenishes at some rate that feels like accountability, right?
You can ruin that guy's reputation if you would just say his name.
And Bridget, I invite you to say his name out loud right here, if you would.
Nah, not important.
It was important enough for me to ask.
Anyway, that's a system that people understand about humans, right?
They have reputations.
They have histories.