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0 pointslmm2y ago0 comments

> That's just opinion. :)

Well sure, but do you actually disagree? IMO a lot of people are overthinking this and skipping the obvious explanation.

> The indisputable fact is that it is sometimes unhelpful and wrong.

Everyone, and every answering strategy, is "sometimes unhelpful and wrong". (So are AI helpers). So that's not a useful way to compare approaches.

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rezonant2y ago

Well if you can answer both X and Y, then in the case they really wanted X the answer is helpful, and in the case that they overlooked Y, the answer is still helpful. I'd say that's wrong less than either X or either Y

lmmOP2y ago

Sure. But cost/benefit; you can always spend more time and effort making a better answer, but at some point life gets in the way. And sometimes you're not up to answering X.

wokwokwok2y ago

There is no situation where a genuine attempt to answer both X and Y is unhelpful and wrong.

Even if it's wrong, it'll still be helpful to see an attempt at answering both the question and your interpretation of a solution to the problem.

Only an incorrect and wrong attempt to answer an imagined problem (ie. Y) is actually useless.

lmmOP2y ago

Why? If an attempt is always helpful, then an attempt to answer Y is always helpful. It's true that sometimes you might be wrong about Y being the real problem, but answering both X and Y doesn't solve that - sometimes the real problem is Z.

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0 pointslmm2y ago0 comments

> That's just opinion. :)

Well sure, but do you actually disagree? IMO a lot of people are overthinking this and skipping the obvious explanation.

> The indisputable fact is that it is sometimes unhelpful and wrong.

Everyone, and every answering strategy, is "sometimes unhelpful and wrong". (So are AI helpers). So that's not a useful way to compare approaches.

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rezonant2y ago

lmmOP2y ago

Sure. But cost/benefit; you can always spend more time and effort making a better answer, but at some point life gets in the way. And sometimes you're not up to answering X.

wokwokwok2y ago

There is no situation where a genuine attempt to answer both X and Y is unhelpful and wrong.

Even if it's wrong, it'll still be helpful to see an attempt at answering both the question and your interpretation of a solution to the problem.

Only an incorrect and wrong attempt to answer an imagined problem (ie. Y) is actually useless.

lmmOP2y ago

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