I was wondering why so many people were suddenly hopping into my humble profession and declaring me redundant. Ah, a youtube influencer is at the center of it. Makes sense.
replylol
replyThis feels like a bit of a false dichotomy. Just because I give some thinking tasks to an AI doesn't mean I'm sitting there doing nothing while it thinks.
replyInterpret the intent of the parent's comment more and focus less on finding its critiques. The irony here is that the critique you made is the most obvious one, which also means it is the one that the parent believed you're most likely to understand the implicit context around. I don't think anyone has handed all thinking over to LLMs, it's always somewhere on a spectrum. I think we can assume the parent isn't framing things as a binary outcome. If they were, we should ignore everything they're saying.
replyI’ve made frameworks that turn a project entirely over to the AI — eg, turn a paragraph summary of what I want into a book on that topic.
replyObviously I get much less out of that — I’m not denying the tradeoff, just saying that some people are all the way to “write a short request, accept the result” for (certain) thinking tasks.
Sure but even that falls on the spectrum. The request requires some thinking. So if we're not being pedantic then people will criticize because natural language isn't
replyI'd say _this_ is the comment guilty of making a false dichotomy.
replyDo you have a background in reverse engineering?
replyYou literally have a blog post called "AI can only solve boring problems"
replyAre you just trying to argue for the sake of arguing?
What does my blog post have to do with anything? (But since you mention it - a large part of reverse engineering falls under the "boring" category I define in that article)
replyA VC might want variety and advise people he will vote with his dollars for variety, because he's not funding the same thing as everyone else is.
replyBeing first and the winner requires a lot to line up, so it shouldn't be the only, default, or best setting. Pursuing this is optimizing.
Also a message from 10-15 years ago might not reflect the same context as today.
"A VC might want variety and advise people he will vote with his dollars for variety".
replyIn other words, what's good for Peter Theil might not be goid for you.
Yup. Therefore postulating it as a truth or standard is ok if that's what you agree with and want to also pursue, but it's important to keep in mind that valid goals are a spectrum.
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