@madiator: Do yourself a favor and block 15 mins to read this and many hours to act upon it. We are now way too dependent on LLMs …
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A tweet urging people to reduce their reliance on LLMs and return to long-form writing and thinking on paper to think more clearly and avoid self-deception.
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Do yourself a favor and block 15 mins to read this and many hours to act upon it.
We are now way too dependent on LLMs and have outsourced our thinking there. Time to get back to thinking with a piece of paper. Long form writing pushes you think hard and think clearly.
And remember, at the end of the day, the person you are fooling is yourself.
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