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vaughn tan
@vt
seeing more people talking about using llms to produce final written content (not to do research). for me, this has been v unsatisfactory in writing anything meant to develop/communicate a new concept. is it just me?
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Leo
@lsn
This is so sad I think LMs can do 90% of creativity in theory, just not the top 10% which requires some ineffable genius But the relative ease at using an LLM is that the (unique) type of genius an LLM produces will become more common, but more than that, so will the mediocrity it produces, which saddens me most
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vaughn tan
@vt
i wrote something a while back that i think is relevant to this: https://vaughntan.org/what-makes-us-human-for-now
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Leo
@lsn
Will dig into. I do think we have lost our way on meaning. I shared something I read recently written in 1917 claiming our pursuit of science, which is all ‘theoretically possible to pursue’ engenders a bad mindset, either bc we stop dreaming even bigger, or bc it’s some ‘lower pleasure’ (I wasn’t sure)
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vaughn tan
@vt
i looked in your channel up to about 2 wks back but wasn't immed obv — can you link? i would like to read. it reminds me (possibly) of this:
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Leo
@lsn
I think this is EXACTLY the same idea I think, thank you so much for sharing, this is great Reading this made me think of Girard (“prompted to copy”) and Tolstoy (“all things alive, tiniest detail” & form versus content)
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Leo
@lsn
There is a hilarious Tolstoy quote in war and peace which says: “(ill-judged reason is like) plasterers assigned to plaster one side of a church wall, who smear their plaster all over the windows and the icons, and rejoice at how, from their plastering point of view, everything comes out flat and smooth.”
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