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DESCRIPTION:As an Anthropologist\, magical thinking is a normal fact of lif
 e. Rather than dismissing it outright\, our job is to look at its function
  and yes\, rationality\, for groups at hand.\n\nStarting out with a story 
 about actual chickens being sacrificed to ensure the harvest\, this talk e
 xplores the prevalence of useful magical thinking in our own community. Us
 ing metaphors\, or even personifications\, doesn‘t make a person irratio
 nal. It‘s applying a principle implicitly onto a subject matter which wo
 rks completely differently\, that would be the problem. After all\, unless
  you are a strict vegetarian\, it‘s not the killing of a chicken as such
  you‘d object to\, it‘s the idea that this act makes rain. \n\nWith LL
 Ms\, our public sphere has run into a problem where experts are at loss ex
 plaining a very complicated thing to a general public\, which often lacks 
 the basic terms with which to understand how this mechanism works. The ins
 tant personification of LLMs can lead to vast mismatches between their act
 ual capabilities and what those stories imply. Rather than dismissing them
  outright\, the question posed would be\, what‘s the alternative?\n\nThe
  talk is intended to be a light-hearted overview of some examples of both 
 useful and dangerous constructions used to simplify complexity. It aims to
  touch upon some of the mechanisms that should be heeded in order to be ab
 le to tell a better story.
DTSTAMP:20241227T122640Z
LOCATION:Saal GLITCH
SUMMARY:Sacrificing Chickens Properly: Why Magical Thinking is Both the Pro
 blem and the Solution. - Senana
URL:https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/PR8EGC/
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