Here’s my problem with using GPT, or an LLM generally for anything1, even if the LLM would do it ‘effectively’, I will speak specifically of looking for information as an example, and let’s assume the following scenario; ever used the “I’m feeling Lucky” button in Google? This button usually gives the first result of the search without actually showing you the search results, let’s assume that, you lived in a perfect world where in every Google search you have ever done, you clicked this button, and it was extremely, extremely, precise and efficient in finding the perfect fit for whatever you were looking for, that is to say, every search you have ever done in your life, was successful, from the first hit.
Now, in such a world, do you think that your intellect would has grown the same amount in which you had to actually do proper research, encounter crazy people, cultures, controversies, jokes, people who wrote interesting enough stuff that you followed them, arguments you disagreed with but couldn’t quite dismiss, footnotes that led nowhere and everywhere at once, half-broken blogs, bad takes that forced you to sharpen your own, or sources that contradicted each other so hard you had to build a model of the world just to survive the tension?
I guess not. Because what would be missing isn’t information but the experience. And experience is where intellect actually gets trained.
“I’m Feeling Lucky” intelligence is optimized for arrival, not for becoming. You get the answer but nothing else (keep in mind we are assuming that it’s a good answer).
You don’t learn how ideas fight, mutate, or die. You don’t develop a sense for epistemic smell or the ability to feel when something is off before you can formally prove it…
Source: https://lr0.org/blog/p/gpt
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If stars can hear no sunlit words,
I shall create my own bright dream;
And charm it with the songs of battle.
A brother I to storm and chasm,
But to my battle dress I add
The star of fields - a fleur de lys.
~ “Conquistador in iron armor” by Nikolay Gumilev [1905, excerpt, translated by Leonid Strakhovsky]Frankly, when I read it… I could not hold tears… hence the poem I recalled…
Thank you… thank you… dear Salih Muhammad (aka. larrasket; aka. lr0)…This author does not understand sentences, they just add a comma and keep typing as if trying to smuggle another sentence in as part of the previous, they ought to use more periods.
