An intellectual Mode rather than a Mean or a Median?
I mean that it's a kind of lowest common denominator average where it's more important to seem reasonable and to not upset anyone rather than be really good in some ways and bad in others.
The comment by Joseph Greenpie[0] is just marvellous, what a gem!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
If human knowledge were a pyramid, LLMs just make the pyramid flatter, i.e. shorter, wider at the bottom, and narrower at the tip. It makes Humans dumber.
The capital M had meaning that I didnt grasp since I hadn't heard of Mode in that way before.
Today's learning!