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More generally, we should be skeptical of all new information we learn. What makes someone more trustworthy than an LLM? For science we need experiments, theori
by lumb63 3y ago
More generally, we should be skeptical of all new information we learn. What makes someone more trustworthy than an LLM? For science we need experiments, theories, mechanisms, etc. For history we need sources, ideally primary, and working from there. For math we need proofs.
Knowledge is much more fallible than many appreciate. Many of the “universal” truths of today were once unknown or controversial. Our understanding of the world is built on a giant set of shoulders, of all those who have come before us. We do ourselves a great disservice not to acknowledge, understand, and appreciate how something came to be “true”.
- acomjean 3y ago> What makes someone more trustworthy than an LLM? I mean people can be terrible. But a teacher is a trusted profession and likely needs that paycheck and will avoid doing stupid things to loose that. I don’t think LLM care one way or another. Someone should ask one.
- lumb63 3y agoI’m not implying teachers are uneducated, but rather that it’s important to understand why what they are teaching is accepted. For instance, creationism used to be taught in public schools, we used to not believe germs to be the cause of illness, etc. What we teach is a reflection of what we “know”, but what we know isn’t always true.