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Through this same lens, using Google is a form of learned helplessness.

• satvikpendem 2y ago
  If you follow [3], yes, even learning to read and write is a form of learned helplessness, as Thoth and Socrates conclude. Now, you might not thing that affects our day to day world, but it does; because imagine if we could not read nor write, what sorts of hypotheses we might come up with, now extend that to what we say about LLMs. To those that say those are inequal circumstances, I invite you prove why. Thoth and Socrates know a hell of a lot more than you ever did, to be frank.
  • kkukshtel 2y ago
    You're doing a bit of a logical fallacy here where you're framing the idea of "learned helplessness" as a bad thing intrinsic to the use of LLMs, but then backpedaling to suggest that writing itself is also learned helplessness. And the latter I'm fine to agree with, but it changes the terms under which you made your comment in the first place to poo poo them. If your point is that technological advances cede some part of humanity to technology, sure, but by nature of that point this isn't relevant commentary on LLMs outside the fact they too participate in that lineage, which, okay, but that isn't really saying anything besides "LLMs are technology".
• viccis 2y ago
  >learned helplessness This is an existing phrase with an explicit meaning that you are clashing with.