One cannot be bad at the things one doesn't even do. None of this demonstrates that humans are bad at "literally almost everything."
- Does not have the requisite skills and experiences to do X successfully
- Inherently does not have the capacity to do X
I think the former is a reasonable standard to apply in this context. I'd definitely say I would be bad if I tried to play the guitar, but I'm not inherently incapable of doing it. It's just not very useful to say "I could be good at it if I put 1000 hours of practice in."
??? If you don’t know how to do something you’re really bad at it. I’m not sure what that sentence is even trying to convey.
That doesn't make them bad at reciting The Raven from memory. Being trained to recite The Raven from memory and still being unable to do so would be a proper application of the term. There is an obvious difference between the two states of being and conflating them is specious.
If you want to take seriously the premise that humans are bad at almost everything because most humans haven't been trained at doing almost everything humans can do, then you must apply the same rubric to LLMs, which are only capable of expressions within their specific dataset (and thus not the entire corpus of data on which they haven't been trained) and even then which tend to confabulate far more frequently than human beings at even simple tasks.
edit: never mind, I guess you aren't willing to take this conversation on good faith.
And the average person would do poorly. Not because they couldn't be trained to do it, but because they haven't.
But that isn't the claim I'm objecting to. The claim I'm objecting to is "The average person is bad at literally almost everything," which is not an equivalent claim to "people who aren't trained at math would be bad at math at a competitive level," because it implicitly includes everything that a person is trained in and is expected to be qualified to do.
It was just bad, cynical hyperbole. And it's weird that people are defending it so aggressively.
Nitpicking language doesn't help to move the conversation. One thing most humans are good at is understanding meaning even when the speaker wasn't absolutely precise.