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WORD OF ADVICE FOR LLM BEARS!! If you have tried to use LLMs and find them useless or without value, you should seriously consider learning how to correctly us

WORD OF ADVICE FOR LLM BEARS!! If you have tried to use LLMs and find them useless or without value, you should seriously consider learning how to correctly use them and doing more research. It is literally a skill issue and I promise you that you are in the process of being left behind. In the coming years Human + AI cooperatives are going to far surpass you in terms of efficiency and output. You are handicapping yourself by not becoming good at using them. These things can deliver massive value NOW. You are going to be a grumbling gray beard losing your job to 22 year old zoomers who spend 10 hours a day talking to LLMs.

fire_lake 2y ago
If the future is not LLMs, then this is a waste of time. If the future is only LLMs then we’re all cooked. If the future is a hybrid, then those “grey beard” skills are a much higher barrier to entry than a few months tinkering with ChatGPT. Please stop spreading FUD.
- vonneumannstan 2y ago
  Weight the three possibilities how you want but I think in scenario 3 you are coping hard and the grey beard skills aren't nearly as valuable as you think. Is this not already the case? Grey beards already have well known problems with age discrimination despite having such a unique and hard to earn skillset no?
  - jaccola 2y ago
    LLMs are not difficult to use and learn though, if so called "greybeard" skills are valueless (or close to) then knowing how to use an LLM certainly won't be valuable either! Just like in the 2000-2010's knowing how to effectively Google things (while undoubtedly a skill) wasn't what made someone economically valuable.
    - vonneumannstan 2y ago
      >LLMs are not difficult to use and learn though, if so called "greybeard" skills are valueless (or close to) then knowing how to use an LLM certainly won't be valuable either! I mean I challenge you to show you're as skilled at using LLMs as Janus or Pliny the Liberator. https://x.com/repligate https://x.com/repligate https://x.com/elder_plinius https://x.com/elder_plinius

fire_lake 2y ago

If the future is not LLMs, then this is a waste of time. If the future is only LLMs then we’re all cooked. If the future is a hybrid, then those “grey beard” skills are a much higher barrier to entry than a few months tinkering with ChatGPT. Please stop spreading FUD.

vonneumannstan 2y ago
Weight the three possibilities how you want but I think in scenario 3 you are coping hard and the grey beard skills aren't nearly as valuable as you think. Is this not already the case? Grey beards already have well known problems with age discrimination despite having such a unique and hard to earn skillset no?
- jaccola 2y ago
  LLMs are not difficult to use and learn though, if so called "greybeard" skills are valueless (or close to) then knowing how to use an LLM certainly won't be valuable either! Just like in the 2000-2010's knowing how to effectively Google things (while undoubtedly a skill) wasn't what made someone economically valuable.
  - vonneumannstan 2y ago
    >LLMs are not difficult to use and learn though, if so called "greybeard" skills are valueless (or close to) then knowing how to use an LLM certainly won't be valuable either! I mean I challenge you to show you're as skilled at using LLMs as Janus or Pliny the Liberator. https://x.com/repligate https://x.com/repligate https://x.com/elder_plinius https://x.com/elder_plinius