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What if the LLMs are teaching us that long form prose/technical writing is just a really bad, unnatural format for communication but natural dialogues are a goo

• amrocha 2y ago
  If that was the case every scientific paper would be written as socratic dialogue. But it’s not. Because that’s a good format for beginners, but not for science.
  • parpfish 2y ago
    the reason the current format exists and is used is because it's very information dense. i think scientific papers would be better if they were socratic dialogues. but the limitation in publishing a dialogue is that you'd just get to publish one of them and each reader is going to come in with different questions and goals for what they want out of the paper.
• epolanski 2y ago
  The way I see it it is sort of like debugging code you're not well accustomed with. While you're still going to learn whether you go through the hassle of understanding the system, develop a method for debugging it and learning about it along the way... Of course a senior could point you to the issue right away, probably an llm too, and even provide a learning opportunity, but does it hold the same lasting impact of being able to overcome the burden yourself? Which one makes a more lasting effect on your abilities and skills? Again, LLMs are a tool, but if people in school/college start using it to offload the reasoning part they are not developing it themselves.