Is this any different than saying that nowadays most people in the USA are physically weaker and less able to work on a farm than their predecessors? Sure, it's not optimal through certain lenses, but through other lenses it is an improvement. We are by any rights dependent on new systems to procure food, which is even more fundamental than other types of human cognition being preserved.
This would be a valid POV if there was any solid evidence that LLMs truly increased worker productivity or reliability - at best it is a mixed bag. To stretch the food analogy, it seems like LLMs could be pure corn syrup, without any disease-resistant fruits and unnaturally plump chickens that actually make modern agriculture worthwhile.
Or, since LLMs seem to be addictive, it's like getting rid of the spinach farms and replacing them with opium poppies. (I really hate this tech.)
People pay a fortune and expend endless hours to replace the basic physical activity that used to be a default part of the human experience. Also a huge chunk of the population that doesn't suffers from life-altering metabolic disorders.
> Is this any different than saying that nowadays most people in the USA are physically weaker and less able to work on a farm than their predecessors?
Yes, far different, because we can still go to the gym and throw medicine balls around or swing kettle bells and do dead lifts and squats if we want to stay fit.
There is no substitute for exercising our ability to logically construct deterministic, hardened, efficient data flow networks that process specific inputs in specific environments to produce specific changes and outputs.
Maybe I'm the only one who understood the most important factor the eminent Leslie Lamport explained in grisly detail the other day, that, namely, logical thinking is both irreplaceable and essential. I'll add that that nerdiest of skillsets is also withering on the vine.
There is no substitute for exercising our ability to logically construct deterministic, hardened, efficient data flow networks that process specific inputs in specific environments to produce specific changes and outputs.
And every single microprocessor and their encompassing support systems and the systems they host and execute.
Every single system, even analog ones, because it's all just information flowing through switched systems, even if it's solely measured in something involving coulombs.
Also, fundamentally, living cells and the organisms that encompass them, because they all have a logically variable information flow both within them and between them, measured in molecules and energy.
