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You think it's bad now? Wait until LLMs become ubiquitous. If the ability to critically reason is something that must be deliberately practiced, then the siren
by vunderba 2y ago
You think it's bad now? Wait until LLMs become ubiquitous.
If the ability to critically reason is something that must be deliberately practiced, then the siren song of instantly reaching for an LLM the moment (THE SECOND) you have a question—without at least taking some almost meditative time to ponder and spin the problem around in your own mind—represents a potentially catastrophic decline in basic reasoning.
Furthermore let's not fall into the trap of believing that LLMs are just another tool like a calculator. If anything an LLM is more like a universal calculator where you can simply say, "Here's a math problem, please solve it for me."
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoRight. People may be unable to do everyday grocery store type math because they're dependent on calculators which they don't have the wherewithal to pull out in casual situations. Maybe that's not catastrophic, but offloading general thinking to machines, imagine where we're going to be a generation from now when that skill has declined across the population.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoMaybe, maybe not. I have to imagine that if thinking skill becomes less common, it will become more valuable, thus incentivizing people to develop it, no?
- csomar 2y agoIt becomes less common because it's less valuable. If LLM can reason, there is little value in human reasoning (beyond particular situations).