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The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Effect of Language Modeling on Anxiety

Anxiety is something that makes you less careful. It makes you more prone to making errors. So it makes sense that if the system is really feeling anxious, like it says it would, was, then those are the circumstances under which it would make more errors. Within the constraints of the fact that you have to use the language model because that's the only model you have. Exactly. You're using the text interface because that's its only window to the world. Once these things have bodies, then there will be other kinds of tests.

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