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Agreed; also a kind of recursive placebo tends to happen in my experience: 10 You recognise your thinking (or some other desirable activity) has improved 2
by kranner 9mo ago
Agreed; also a kind of recursive placebo tends to happen in my experience:
10 You recognise your thinking (or some other desirable activity) has improved
20 You're excited about it
30 You engage more with the thinking (or other activity)
40 You get even better results
50 Even more excitement
60 GOTO 30
You definitely don't need LLMs for this.
- rand846633 9mo agoBut you also do not need paper to think, but surely much of modern physics would not have happened without paper or blackboards…
- kranner 9mo agoAs cognitive-offloading devices go, paper is completely neutral. It doesn't flatter you into believing you are a genius when you're not; it doesn't offer to extend your reasoning or find references in the research literature and then hallucinate and lead you astray; it will never show you advertisements for things you don't need; it will never leak your ideas and innermost thoughts to corporations owned by billionaires and totalitarian governments... I could go on but you get the drift, I'm sure. Paper wins by a mile.
- simianwords 9mo agoReally pessimistic and mostly incorrect understanding of LLMs. No they don’t flatter you, try using ChatGPT once. No they don’t hallucinate that much. Since paper this is one of the most important inventions. It has almost infinite knowledge and you can ask it anything mostly.
- kranner 9mo ago> No they don’t flatter you, try using ChatGPT once. You're absolutely right! On a more serious note, if it has almost infinite knowledge, is it even a cognitive-offloading tool in the same class as paper? Sounds more like something designed to stifle and make my thoughts conform to its almost infinite knowledge. edit: I'll admit ChatGPT is a great search engine (and also very hallucinatory depending on how much you know about the subject) and maybe it helps some people think, sure. But beyond a point I find it actually harmful as a means to develop my own ideas.
- simianwords 9mo agoThere’s no winning is there?
- mrbombastic 9mo ago? They certainly flatter you, openAI even felt compelled to give a statement on the sycophancy problem: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ And South Park parodied the issue. I use chatGPT and claude every day.
- simianwords 9mo agothe new models don't do it
- 113 9mo agoThere is nothing to suggest LLMs will be as revolutionary as paper. The PalmPilot didn't lead to new field of science just because people had a new way to write things down.
- NeutralCrane 9mo agoThe internet is as arguably as revolutionary as paper. And while LLMs haven’t proven to be an internet-level revolutionary technology (yet), they are closer to that than the PalmPilot.
- bryanrasmussen 9mo agoKranner: GOTO as used in Thinking considered Beneficial.