this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
348 points (96.5% liked)

Technology

83500 readers
2949 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
348
Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns (futurism.com)
submitted 1 week ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
117 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Population is a statistical term which means "everything". There is no "next 100".

The 300 number is specifically about very big populations where you're trying to measure something like an average of an unknown variable. It doesn't apply to just anything statistics.

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I meant like births, as in even if you can enumerate every single individual, statistics can apply to future members that don't yet exist.

And yeah, it's been a while and I remembered that the proof didn't depend on the population size but forgot that it assumed a large population size in the first place. I was wrong.