There is a failure to understand that the process is the result. You don't study mathematics or computer science and information theory to produce commodities. You study them to transform your mind. The output of an LLM is useless without a human mind to comprehend it. We can have Super Intelligence, but if humans are incapable of comprehending it, it is just another useless dead artifact. Practice, applied over a lifetime, is what creates the capability for comprehension. Asking an LLM to give you an answer creates an artifact. Humans being humans, most of their requests boil down to "make me rich without having to work for it," so the request itself is paradoxical and impossible to satisfy. Philosophers have only been saying this for all of human history, so don't hold your breath for any breakthroughs.
That’s a very narrow world view. Some people are driven by the pursuit of knowledge, while others want to use the knowledge to have an impact. I don’t care about the knowledge in my head if I can’t use it to make the world a better place. LLMs are fantastic tools to make that a reality. I have a computer science degree and am now 10-100x more productive with AI assistance. I give zero shits about all the people going “but you’re not crafting the code by manipulating bytes using magnets, so it isn’t real.” The non profit using my vibe coded app finds it very real.
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