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0 pointscube22221y ago0 comments

Sure, same as I'm probably pretty bad at going to the library and looking up information there, with the advent of the internet.

In practice, this lets you reasonably process the knowledge from a lot more papers than you otherwise would, which I think is a win. The way we learn is evolving, as it has in the past, and that's a good thing.

Though I agree that this will be another way for lazy children to avoid learning (by just letting AI do the exercises), and we'll need to find a good solution for that, whatever it may be.

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miltonlost1y ago

Not being able to glean information from a paper is wildly different than being unable to use a card catalog. The former is basic reading comprehension; the latter is a technology.

You AREN'T learning what that paper is saying; you're learning parts of what the LLM says is useful.

If you read just theorems, you aren't learning math. You need to read the proof too, and not just a summary of the proof.

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miltonlost1y ago

Not being able to glean information from a paper is wildly different than being unable to use a card catalog. The former is basic reading comprehension; the latter is a technology.

You AREN'T learning what that paper is saying; you're learning parts of what the LLM says is useful.

If you read just theorems, you aren't learning math. You need to read the proof too, and not just a summary of the proof.

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