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At some level of abstraction it's all built around allowing you to do some work/play/etc that you understand. Some of that work allows you to make money and eat food.

If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?

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> If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?

If you replace "LLM" with "mathematician" than this is the state of the world today. Stuff like Galois theory is beautiful mathematically, but what has it constructed or enabled for you and me?

We haven't reoriented the entirety of society and the global economy around Galois theory, nor are all the Galois theory companies worth trillions of dollars.

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