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Which Humans? LLMs mainly mirror WEIRD minds (Europeans?)

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Which Humans? LLMs mainly mirror WEIRD minds (Europeans?)

Post by kaven1234 » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 12:22 AM UTC

Which Humans? LLMs mainly mirror WEIRD minds (Europeans?)
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Re: Which Humans? LLMs mainly mirror WEIRD minds (Europeans?)

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Re: Which Humans? LLMs mainly mirror WEIRD minds (Europeans?)

Post by andsoitis » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC

> their performance on cognitive psychological tasks most resembles that of people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies

Is that such a bad thing? After all, that’s where the technology came from so it isn’t surprising that that would also be the dominant culture expressed by the technology.

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