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adlpzyesterday at 12:14 PM4 repliesview on HN

Agreed, conceptually.

BUT. For 99% of tasks I'm totally certain there's people out there that are orders of magnitude better at them than me.

If the AI can regurgitate their thinking, my output is better.

Humans may need to think to advance the state of the art.

Humans may not need to think to just... do stuff.


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y0eswddlyesterday at 9:18 PM

Only if you're less intelligent than the average. The problem with LLMs is that they will always fall to the average/mean/median of information.

And if the average person is orders of magnitude better than you at thinking, you're right... you should let the AI do it lol

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latexryesterday at 2:00 PM

> For 99% of tasks I'm totally certain there's people out there that are orders of magnitude better at them than me.

And LLMs slurped some of those together with the output of thousands of people who’d do the task worse, and you have no way of forcing it to be the good one every time.

> If the AI can regurgitate their thinking, my output is better.

But it can’t. Not definitively and consistently, so that hypothetical is about as meaningful as “if I had a magic wand to end world hunger, I’d use it”.

> Humans may not need to think to just... do stuff.

If you don’t think to do regular things, you won’t be able to think to do advanced things. It’s akin to any muscle; you don’t use it, it atrophies.

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toobulkehyesterday at 6:34 PM

Imagine if everyone got the opportunity to work on SOTA. What a world we would be.

Unfortunately that’s not where we’re headed.

djaouenyesterday at 2:01 PM

> Humans may not need to think to just... do stuff.

God forbid we should ever have to think lol

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