That seems mostly nonresponsive to his point, since those sorts of shelters are obviously going to let in a ton of outside air and where they do not, like caves, they will be concentrating smoke, and be so small & primitive that their endogenous dust levels don’t matter much compared to exogenous.
I also think it’s probably a bad idea to provide random GPT pastes if you haven’t factchecked them and they do not serve any particular point. The Star Carr part seems right, but the 100kya claim for caves seems badly wrong*, and the first use of caves for shelter more likely dates back at least 750,000 years ago (Carmel isn’t even mentioned in the cave-dwelling article, nor can I find a relevant one in its article or some searches, only an instance of a burial dated 100kya). Why do you think GPT-4 is any more accurate about, say, Luhmann or the Sequences than it is about human habitation of caves?
* Really, you found that plausible? Humans have been around for like a million years, and only ~100kya they noticed these warm comfy holes in the ground beloved by many other animals like bears and tried to live in them? Humans have clothing, seafaring, bone carving and beads etc ~100kya but still were figuring out ‘hey we can go into this cave thing!’?
I don’t think ChatGPT is “correct” with sources or numbers because it has no deep understanding of either. I think it is “directionally correct”.
As to the “non-responsive” part: I should have been more clear that I meant that in the ancestral environment, there is much more dust carried into and accumulated in the shelter than in modern homes.
That seems mostly nonresponsive to his point, since those sorts of shelters are obviously going to let in a ton of outside air and where they do not, like caves, they will be concentrating smoke, and be so small & primitive that their endogenous dust levels don’t matter much compared to exogenous.
I also think it’s probably a bad idea to provide random GPT pastes if you haven’t factchecked them and they do not serve any particular point. The Star Carr part seems right, but the 100kya claim for caves seems badly wrong*, and the first use of caves for shelter more likely dates back at least 750,000 years ago (Carmel isn’t even mentioned in the cave-dwelling article, nor can I find a relevant one in its article or some searches, only an instance of a burial dated 100kya). Why do you think GPT-4 is any more accurate about, say, Luhmann or the Sequences than it is about human habitation of caves?
* Really, you found that plausible? Humans have been around for like a million years, and only ~100kya they noticed these warm comfy holes in the ground beloved by many other animals like bears and tried to live in them? Humans have clothing, seafaring, bone carving and beads etc ~100kya but still were figuring out ‘hey we can go into this cave thing!’?
Here are some actual sources as requested:
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves go back up to 500.000 BP
Olduvai Gorge | Archaeological Site, Tanzania go back 2 million years BP
I don’t think ChatGPT is “correct” with sources or numbers because it has no deep understanding of either. I think it is “directionally correct”.
As to the “non-responsive” part: I should have been more clear that I meant that in the ancestral environment, there is much more dust carried into and accumulated in the shelter than in modern homes.