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It's my understanding that this same debate raged when writing became a thing. Many viewed it with suspicious, or derision, as memorization was the big intellec
by timcobb 1mo ago
It's my understanding that this same debate raged when writing became a thing. Many viewed it with suspicious, or derision, as memorization was the big intellectual thing. So writing and reading back to remember was terrible. It's true it was a dependence, but the value was too high. With reading and writing a person could work on and synthesize from a far wider range of concurrent materials than one could with just memorization and recitation. Yeah, it's lame cheating, but writing enables a lot and so it won out.
- nixpulvis 1mo agoBig difference though, once you know how to read and write, nobody can take that away from you.
- DaSHacka 1mo agoNobody can take local models away from you, either
- nixpulvis 1mo agoYea, that's sorta my point. We're not, or at least I'm not to the point I have a local model as good as Opus yet though.
- timcobb 1mo agoWe're only a few years into this whole thing... In any case you can say the exact same thing about reading. Take the book away and bam, you know nothing. A person who memorized the book is not dependent on an expensive, heavy thing like a book.
- selimthegrim 1mo agoIs the local model that emits rebuses in the room with us now?
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- a2ff6eeb0 1mo agoYeah, exactly -- when we automated muscles in the industrial revolution, it was fine. Today, we're automating thinking. And, while there are people that still lift weights for fun, it's not needed professionally any more. I think we'll end up in the same place with thinking -- education is probably going to be a hobby, not a requirement.
- yoyohello13 1mo agoThis is the solution to the Fermi paradox. Civilization just automate themselves into useless meat sacks.
- timcobb 1mo agoI bet education will be more important than ever. Prestige, status etc to distinguish yourself. "Taste is all that's left," as someone said here.
- a2ff6eeb0 1mo agoI suppose, thought I don't imagine it's going to be so necessary to learn things. Maybe education will be about being impressive in person? Taste also feels easy enough to automate. I'm not sure why anyone thinks it's harder than anything else.