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  • “Begging the question” is a logical fallacy wherein “the speaker assumes some premise that has not been demonstrated to be true.”. However, “begs the question” is used more as where something creates a question.

    So by the original “because the earth is flat the planet is not rotating.” You assume the earth is flat to justify your point of no rotation. Whereas the common usage “the flat earth theory and other science conspiracies beg the question of why people don’t drop dead by forgetting to breathe.” Flat earth theory created questions about human intelligence.










  • I know a first cousin of mine did. :( Over 15million people used it.

    The only silver lining is that they’ve been bought by a research company instead of an insurance company. I don’t know if theres a legal leg to stand on per the data. They almost 100% agreed to give up ownership to the company, that’s the only way it could do any of the genetic relationship analysis that it did.






  • And a kid can insist they don’t need to pee until 5min after you leave a rest stop.

    Insisting upon something doesn’t make it true. Beyond the fact that LLMs often hallucinate and therefore can’t be trusted at baseline, text in response can never be proof for an LLM. LLM framework is to regurgitate what exists in their training in ways that sound correct. It’s why they can make up court cases or say a guy who investigated certain murderers is the murderer.