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I'm Not Consulting an LLM

consulting an LLM Here's my problem with using GPT, or an LLM generally for anything1, even if the LLM would do it 'effectively', I will speak specifically of looking for information as an example, and let's assume the following scenario; ever used the "I'm feeling Lucky" button in Google? This button usually gives the first result of the search without actually showing you the search results, let's assume that, you lived in a perfect world where in every Google search you have ever done, you clicked this button, and it was extremely, extremely, precise and efficient in finding the perfect fit for whatever you were looking for, that is to say, every search you have ever done in your life, was successful, from the first hit. Now, in such a world, do you think that your intellect would has grown the same amount in which you had to actually do proper research, encounter crazy people, cultures, controversies, jokes, people who wrote interesting enough stuff that you followed them, arguments you disagreed with but couldn’t quite dismiss, footnotes that led nowhere and everywhere at once, half-broken blogs, bad takes that forced you to sharpen your own, or sources that contradicted each other so hard you had to build a model of the world just to survive the tension? I guess not.

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