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Well I didn't say you should never concern yourself with the details. But at some point in your life you will have gone through the details so often you won't
by lordnacho 4y ago
Well I didn't say you should never concern yourself with the details.
But at some point in your life you will have gone through the details so often you won't be getting them wrong, but you'll still be spending a lot of time on them. With a tool like cgpt you can save yourself a lot of time.
Of course it's up to you where you take the trade. If your thing is a medical device that will kill someone if it isn't checked, maybe you carefully write the code yourself. If you're building some POC website, why not let the AI fill in a few API calls for you?
And don't forget, plenty of details are already outsourced. Entire reference books are full of details that we prefer not to keep memorized.
Plato:
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.”
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I'm advocating cgpt as a tool that allows you to spend more time at the level of abstraction that is appropriate for the problem. If you're writing an essay about the fall of Rome, you don't want to be spending loads of time finding the details of a reference (year published, secondary author's names, exact title...). You want to be talking about economics of the time, incentives for different groups in Roman society, and so on.
- thundergolfer 4y agoRight, it seems like you're advocating ChatGPT as an information retreival tool, which seems perfectly acceptable. Looking up exact dates and names is tedious. By "filling in the details" I thought you were referring more generally to the essay writing process, where the structure of an essay is its skeleton and the "details" are the just as essential pieces of argumentation and evidence. If you write a sociology, history, or philosophy essay, for example, writing the high level structure (intro, topic-sentence 1, topic-sentence 2, ..., conclusion) and then outsourcing the rest would be intellectually bankrupt. You can't understand produce a synthesis argument of Hume's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments with ChatGPT.
- lordnacho 4y agoIs that bait? Adam Smith IIRC. Hume did Treatise on Human Nature.
- thundergolfer 4y agoNot bait, but it could have been! I switched my example halfway through because I couldn't think of a 2nd Hume book, but didn't properly edit. Edit: Here's the first paragraph of what ChatGPT responds to my incorrect request for that synthesis argument. Thankfully we had you reply and not ChatGPT: > David Hume's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two of his most famous works that address important aspects of economics and ethics, respectively. While these two works seem to address separate topics, they are related and complement each other in many ways. ... ChatGPT Prompt: produce a synthesis argument of Hume's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments