70 sats \ 15 replies \ @k00b 29 Jun \ on: Stacker Saloon
Anytime you use an AI to write something for you, on some level you're admitting a smart high schooler writes, and because writing is thinking, thinks better than you do.
Not quite. What you're admitting is that the difference in quality between you and the smart high schooler is not worth your time and effort for that task.
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I'm not quite sure yet, but when considering some of the literature I've been reviewing lately, specifically the Bhagavad-Gita and John Mill's "On Liberty," moralizing with the intent to inspire self-discovered and self-driven action might be morally correct. From the Bhagavad-Gita:
One should remember man's spirit as the guide, the primordial poet, smaller than an atom, granter of all things, in form inconceivable, the color of the sun beyond darkness.
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I'm certainly not above moralizing. I like your omitted addendum.
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In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with admitting this.
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I think therefore I can write versus I can write therefore I think.
Fair, but I mostly meant, exceptions excepted: I struggle to write therefore I struggle to think.
Are you saying that because transformers can write that they can think?
It depends on how one defines thinking. I don't know how to define it. I suspect some of our thinking resembles the way LLMs think do things.
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This reminded me of a girl I met once who had a bizarre cognitive deficiency.
Her writing ability surpassed her reading comprehension.
Let that and it's implications sink in. Brains are really weird.
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the more you let A.I do the your thinking for you the more you become dumb and lazy
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Today I decided not to use GPS for directions while driving far from home in an unfamiliar area. I'm really feeling like GPS is making me dumber. I'm thinking I would like to stop using it altogether. As far as AI goes, I really don't have a use case for something like chatGPT.
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