One thing LLMs can help with: making simple judgment calls at the level that any reasonable human could do.

· Bits and Bobs 3/11/24

"This cake recipe says you should put in five tablespoons of tabasco sauce. Is that reasonable?"

"This flight search says I need to give my Social Security Number to do a search. Is that reasonable?"

These are the kinds of things that are "well, duh" for any reasonable human… but were very hard to do in a formal, computer-friendly way at scale in the past.

But LLMs, as a kind of magical duct tape, allow you to take this baseline for granted.

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