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I'm surprised some multi-encoder container format didn't take over by now, seeing as there is no one size fits all clear winner so far.

Not nitpicking, just playing along with the analogy, which i found not that far fetched

Cycling, in my experience, is usually way more intense than walking or even running/jogging. It just lets you cover larger distance and gives you more control over how your energy is used.

With the example of LLMs, sure, you could cycle the initial destination you were meant to walk to - write an article with its help, save a few hours and call it a day. Or you could cycle further and use the saved time to work on something a text model can't help you well with.

It's up to everyone to decide what to use LLMs for. For high friction / low throughput (eg, online research using inferieor search tools) tasks, i find text models to be great. To ask about what you don't know, to skip the 'tedious part' (I don't feel like looking for answers, especially troubleshooting arcane technical issues among pages of forums or social media, makes me smarter in any way whatsoever, especially that the information usually needs to be verified and taken with a grain of salt).

StackExchange, the way it was meant to be initially, would be way more valuable over text models. But in reality people are imperfect and carry all sorts of cognitive biases and baggage, while a LLM won't close your question as 'too broad' right after it gets upvotes and user interaction.

On the other hand, I still find LLM writing on the subjects familiar to me, vastly inferior. Whenever I try to write a say, email with its help, I end up spending just as much time either editing the prompt to keep it on track, or rewriting it significantly after. I'd rather write it on my own with my own flow, than proofread/peer review a text model.

>I'm curious, why do you ask?

Mostly out of curiosity and to self reflect. This being a forum largely focused on 'work/hobby/productivty', I find everything outside that very relevant, while not being talked about as much. So I was curious what a healthy (or unhealthy?) way of spending one's free time may look like.

Perhaps to see if I'm missing out on something, or get inspiration to spend free time better. I personally wouldn't be able to answer the same question in the way that would make me feel good.

There're several sides to this.

Different courses and universities vary in teaching quality greatly. Often the examination criteria is loosely correlated with knowledge or skill and students end up studying 'around' the examination process, rather than learning for the sake of it or for enjoyment.

Someone mentioned verbal exams - this is the way to do it, but I only had a pleasure to do very few in my years. Probably because it's seen as 'too time consuming' or 'time wasteful', so the shift is then to the student to waste their time instead.

And then you get the occasional course with a lecturer everyone just pays 100% attention to and engages with, where you almost don't need an exam in the first place.

'The problem of LLMs in academia' is a symptom. You get what you measure.

> I admit for a welfare-conscious consumer it's not easy to sift through all the noise by doing actual research

Case in point, the first result I find on Certified Humane egg brands, is paywalled

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/food-drink/shopping-guide/eg...

Human progress is driven by a small percentage of the population

Maybe we're overestimating average human brain capabilities

Multiply that by the number of users and total hours your software is used, and suddenly it's a lot of wasted Watts of energy people rarely talk about.

Life is complicated i guess

2005. Disable javascript to read without "WSJ membership".

It is not competitively advantageous to act in a 'spineful' manner

There is no reason to expect human-like behaviour and traits from organisations.

Average wallet won't have much in it. On the other hand writing an article with a semi proof of this would affect the bitcoin economy, whether deservedly or not.

How do you know, do you work there? What in the parent post indicated your assertion?

It's not the society that we need to worry about. In the beginning a good chunk of society was ringing alarms to close borders, but the economy was too important to protect.

after seeing recent events around mozilla, I suspect they would not allow disabling that if they could get away with it

(don't get me wrong, "everybody sucks")

Agreed.

> Why does everything has to be white? Possibly for higher contrast > outdoor use > portable/touchscreen devices

Gnome suffered from a form of this a few years ago. Nowhere is safe!

You mean being further replaced with the inferior settings app?

OP author is usually biased in one way or another (just like any of us). Reading comments you're pretty much guaranteed to view the problem from multiple angles. When I feel adventurous I read the article first trying to anticipate what the comments will be. When I feel lazy I skim the comments first, then read the article with the grain of salt ready (or not at all).

"Windows bad something else (linux?) good"

>To know if the universe is expanding, we need to know the following: how far away things are, and whether they're moving away from us

May be a stupid question but wouldn't this apply only if we knew that the universe is uniformly dense? And we only see a tiny portion of it.