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If someone earnestly starts using those pointless platitudes LLM generated slop is filled with (“You're absolutely right. Here's where I was wrong …”) I suspect they will quickly find that violence was never far off.


Why?!

Are you saying that you can't see yourself trusting someone who "earnestly" admitted to changing their mind?


Not if they use those generic phrases without any preamble. It's exhausting to have a conversation with someone who constantly answers in hollow pleasing unidiomatic language. Changing someone's mind isn't instant; it's a process (which could start with “Huh. You might be right there. I didn't think of that.” or “Oh right, I forgot about that.” or something similar), not an instant admission of error. It's unhuman.

It gives the other party the sense that they are just saying that to please you, not because they actually changed their mind.


But in the GP's vision, it would become idiomatic:

>imagine a society where everyone is so polite and flattering each other

If it were to become pleasantries like our, "I appreciate it", "sorry about that" and "would you mind", I think it would be amazing for people to talk about changing their mind, even when they don't fully mean it.




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