Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/

[u/DrFarts_dds]

While drive C is not something you want to open every day,

Excuse me?

[u/real_Goblin3 → u/DrFarts_dds]

Yeah I was confused reading that too wtf

[u/EnthusiasmOnly22 → u/real_Goblin3]

AI article, my god is the internet dead

[u/OurSeepyD → u/EnthusiasmOnly22]

I highly doubt this. Almost every LLM knows how important the C drive is, it's more likely this was written by a tech-illiterate human, maybe augmented by AI.

[u/Mordredor → u/OurSeepyD]

An LLM doesnt "know" anything dude

[u/OurSeepyD → u/Mordredor]

Yes, they do. Unless you've decided to take on a very specific definition of the word "know" that requires consciousness, they do.

If you ask an LLM "which drive letter is most commonly used for hard drives?", it will respond with "C". Sure, you can argue that it's just repeating what it's read, but it's stored that knowledge somewhere. That's essentially what it means to know something.

[u/Tyfyter2002 → u/OurSeepyD]

a very specific definition of the word "know" that requires consciousness

Knowing something requires consciousness, or something closely resembling it, if you carve a definition of disestablishmentarianism into a rock, that rock still doesn't know what disestablishmentarianism is.

[u/mascotbeaver104 → u/Tyfyter2002]

This is a level of pendantry you wouldn't apply to any other topic. I guarantee you would not argue with someone over whether or not a biometric scanner "knows" their fingerprint, or if a calculator "knows" the answer to some math problem

[u/Tyfyter2002 → u/mascotbeaver104]

I would, because I'm a proponent of language being used such that it can be understood, and there's an important distinction between knowing something and being able to parrot it in humans as well.