You can use LLMs to build understanding, or you can use LLMs to bypass understanding. Choose wisely.

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4ier 3 weeks ago
It's not like data centers are eliminating water from existence, one parte evaporate and rains on another place and the other part just become hotter
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Joe Resident 3 weeks ago
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I find conversations with AI are a great way to develop my thoughts on a topic. Forces me to think. Then I get feedback. Then think hard again. Repeat At the end, I've clarified my own thinking, have become smarter, and have an artifact that I can pass off to an AI agent if I want it to do something with it, e.g. implementation. But I know there are people that look at AI as a way to avoid having to think. A way to 'get things done so I can be lazy'. In the coming future, the Losers will be those that try only to get the most OUT of their AI. They'll get dumber and dumber. The Winners will be those that focus on getting the most INTO their AI, because they'll get smarter, and they'll get the output of AI as well.
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The pretence of knowledge. Hayek's forgotten Nobel Prize winning lecture. The boom bust cycle resulting from the inevitable cognitive malinvestment caused by AI is not going to be pretty.