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Colors and color names are culture dependent, and you are not guaranteed that people in different cultures agree on what color something is.

The most famous of these discrepancies is Japan and green vs blue, or why does Jenkins by default use red, yellow and blue instead of red, yellow and green.

So I would urge using something other than colors as an example of shared human experience.

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You're talking about culture and names, I am not. We all live in an objective reality where a red spectrum of light exists and we can differentiate among other colors.

This is the contention with the person I am replying to, they're acting as if objective reality doesn't exist. Humans can think, LLMs cannot.

If you can't admit to this there's nothing else worth discussing, but please don't mind my hands covering my wallet as I slowly back out of the room.

> we can differentiate among other colors.

Some of us color-deficient people can’t. I only accept that stop signs are “red” because all the normies say it is. Your point stands, but color perception is not the best example for it.

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