> the unfortunate thing in the 'llm' era - we seem hell bent on destroying the foundations of knowledge.
I disagreee with this. I personally have filled large gaps in my underlying concept knowledge through deep conversations with LLMs. Its so easy to learn huge amounts when you can pull on whatever thread that sparks your imagination. Just being able to keep drilling down into the core of a complex subject without having to stop and manually find the next piece of information is incredibly addictive to me. It gives me hope that LLMs can actually aid humanity instead of detracting from it.
True! But it is also true that you learn better by doing yourself. The knowledge acquired by chatting endlessly is vast but shallow, that acquired by researching yourself and practicing is deep but narrow. We should be equally afraid of both.
Agreed. Use of LLM with a true focus on learning, not allowing it to give you the answers but having it guide you through structured reasoning about new concepts, is very useful.
yeah people's attention might be shot. but it's still a blessing to those who read it the first time, and the ones that re-read it.
the unfortunate thing in the 'llm' era - we seem hell bent on destroying the foundations of knowledge.