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"100x more useful" is pure hyperbole. 2x maybe, but 100x is a symptom of exactly what's wrong about people's thinking about ChatGPT.

I would point to "There is no royal road to geometry"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euclid

high-social status people have often been put off by quantitative reasoning because you spend years learning to do it, spend time gathering facts, thinking hard about things and often end up with tentative statements. High-social status people can skip all of that and get deference anyway the same way ChatGPT does.



Have you ever used Alexa? 2x more useful than alexa is as useful as my doorstop. It can’t understand most prompts, and defaults to reading a snippet from Wikipedia on some random subject then starts playing a pop song from Malaysia at volume 10 while ordering 60,000 incandescent black light bulbs with 2 hour shipping.




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