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This is just not true. I have wasted many hours looking for answers to hard-to-phrase questions and learned very little from the process. If an LLM can get me t
by dcre 9mo ago
This is just not true. I have wasted many hours looking for answers to hard-to-phrase questions and learned very little from the process. If an LLM can get me the same result in 30 seconds, it's very hard for me to see that as a bad thing. It just means I can spend more time thinking about the thing I want to be thinking about. I think to some extent people are valorizing suffering itself.
- codr7 9mo agoLearning means friction, it's not going to happen any other way.
- onemoresoop 9mo agoSome of it is friction, some of it is play. With AI you can get faster to the play part where you do learn a fair bit. But in a sense I agree that less is retained. I think that is not because of lack of friciton, instead is the fast pace of getting what you want now. You no longer need to make a conscious effort to remember any of it because it's effortless to get it again with AI if you ever need it. If that's what you mean by friction then I agree.
- mountain_peak 9mo ago"What an LLM is to me is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a e-bike for our minds"
- codr7 9mo agoWhich is about as useful as a bike for our airplanes.
- dcre 9mo agoI agree! I just don’t think the friction has to come from tediously trawling through a bunch of web pages that don’t contain the answer to your question.