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> llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research something > the llm doesn't make good long term decisions What could p

> llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research something > the llm doesn't make good long term decisions What could possibly go wrong, using something you know makes bad decisions, as the basis of your learning something new. It's like if a dietician instructed a client to go watch McDonald's staff, when they ask how to cook the type of meals that have been recommended.

datsci_est_2015 8mo ago
I’m bearish on AI, but I still think this is disingenuous. My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well. AI is great at exposing you to what you don’t even know you don’t know: your personal unknown unknowns, the complexity you’re completely unaware of.
- stephenr 8mo ago
  > My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well. Are you somehow equating basic multiplication to a "bad long term decision"?
  - datsci_est_2015 8mo ago
    No, I was focusing on this quote: > llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research I was saying that it speeds up research by exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know.
    - stephenr 8mo ago
      > exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know Or the things that it has hallucinated, or just referenced incorrectly. That's my point. You're talking about learning basic maths from a school teacher who isn't a Calculus expert, but the thread is talking about learning maths from a kid with ADHD who completes the homework before the teacher has finished describing what needs to be done, but sometimes returns homework in an invented language with references to Cthulhu throughout it.

datsci_est_2015 8mo ago

I’m bearish on AI, but I still think this is disingenuous. My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well. AI is great at exposing you to what you don’t even know you don’t know: your personal unknown unknowns, the complexity you’re completely unaware of.

stephenr 8mo ago
> My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well. Are you somehow equating basic multiplication to a "bad long term decision"?
- datsci_est_2015 8mo ago
  No, I was focusing on this quote: > llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research I was saying that it speeds up research by exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know.
  - stephenr 8mo ago
    > exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know Or the things that it has hallucinated, or just referenced incorrectly. That's my point. You're talking about learning basic maths from a school teacher who isn't a Calculus expert, but the thread is talking about learning maths from a kid with ADHD who completes the homework before the teacher has finished describing what needs to be done, but sometimes returns homework in an invented language with references to Cthulhu throughout it.