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I’m bearish on AI, but I still think this is disingenuous. My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well.

AI is great at exposing you to what you don’t even know you don’t know: your personal unknown unknowns, the complexity you’re completely unaware of.

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> My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well.

Are you somehow equating basic multiplication to a "bad long term decision"?


No, I was focusing on this quote:

> llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research

I was saying that it speeds up research by exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know.


> exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know

Or the things that it has hallucinated, or just referenced incorrectly.

That's my point. You're talking about learning basic maths from a school teacher who isn't a Calculus expert, but the thread is talking about learning maths from a kid with ADHD who completes the homework before the teacher has finished describing what needs to be done, but sometimes returns homework in an invented language with references to Cthulhu throughout it.




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