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On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 19:58:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 02/01/2026 19:46, rbowman wrote:
>> At least with a classifier it's easy to see a problem if it calls a
>> Great Dane a horse but LLM fantasies tend to get accepted as facts.
> 
> To a young child, if its got 4 legs and fur, its a 'doggie'.

To an even younger child it's close to a Ding an sich. 'Doggie' already is 
a departure from immediate reality. Mommy intrudes and says 'No it is a 
cat.'  Later Mommy adds the concept of 'two cats' and we're off to the 
races. Eventually the kid gets a PhD in math and lives in a completely 
abstract world unable to make a pot of coffee.