https://www.tumblr.com/thelawfulchaotic/807267774110089216?source=share
I wanted to see the original post in my feed, so here’s the link if anyone else wants to reblog.
I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks for the link, I’ll add it to the post body just in case
The bit about avoidance might be insightful. Some people have anxiety about reading and writing, and the LLMs feel like they’re helping. But as this post says, they’re not. They’re making the anxiety worse in the long term.
Many people legitimately are bad at reading and writing. You’ll won’t find a ton of them here, on a platform that’s mostly text, but they’re out there. Struggling though life, probably embarrassed. An LLM that purports to let them skip uncomfortably engaging with text probably feels like a godsend. But it’s a trap. It’s a tarpit they’ll get stuck in and never develop skills of their own.
I keep telling people that AI will atrophy their brain the same way that tools like Google Maps did. We can’t navigate for shit now unless a piece of software tells us the route. The same thing is going to happen, but to really important judgment and thinking skills.
I’ve restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.
Damn, you just clicked for me why I have a pretty good sense of direction. I’ve occasionally impressed myself and others for years, with “do you not know how we got here?” or “well we came from that direction” in spite of a generally terrible memory and a passionate dislike of geography and learning street names, etc.
But you’re absolutely right, it’s video games: puzzle dungeons, huge open worlds, metroidvanias, I even prefer playing with the UI and maps off whenever possible, and somehow I’ve never made this connection before. Incredible.
As someone with nearly 500 hours into Elden Ring, this tracks lol.
This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren’t flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton
2023 is when I first got a vehicle with a nav display, and that definitely dulled the more detailed navigation senses.
Cardinal directions still solid but the take a left on Y after X street info I had been cataloging in the back of my mind fell off quickly once I started turn by turn directions all the time.
I stopped using navigation for the most part. Mind you, I grew up using maps but it only took a couple months for my navigation skills to cone back.
Here it is just outright spoiling a joke (censored, but you can see that it quotes the punchline):
Oh that’s downright evil.
Concerned about privacy yet still using gmail, let’s hope this was the wakeup call they needed!
That was my take away too. Like I really wouldn’t want my lawyer using Gmail.
reading speed of 1500 wpm
this is bait
Not if he’s measuring his scanning speed and not his literal reading speed.
Which is the sort of thing that the folk who teach scanning to professionals who need to “read” hundreds of pages each day call their techniques. They used to be all over the place until enough people called them out on the mislabel.
(Not to mention three-cuing…)
He specifically says, “with full comprehension”, so, like I said.
Full comprehension just means you gathered the intent of the point the writer was trying to get across. You can easily do that with 20% of the words they wrote if you pick the right words. Scanning is basically training to find all the important words to fully piece together the idea as quickly as possible.
So 25 words per second may sound like alot, but it’s really the time necessary to find 5 words per second out of the crowd of 25. And like any other skill, it is something you get significantly better at with practice. Lawyers are gonna have alot of practice if they work on a skill like this.
Lawyering is well known to be a profession where words really aren’t important so you can miss out every other one and still just get the gist. No court case has ever been decided by pedantry over wording or meaning in legal texts after all.
It’s either that, or Legalese has an enormously low entropy.
Full comprehension implies - to me at least - that you are not just picking up the “intent of the point” but also subtler cues. No, you don’t need to read every single word in order to do that but 1500 words a minute with full comprehension is still horseshit.
That was the point where I thought “this guy is a wanker… but he’s right”
25 words per second. Like would you ever jog on with that.
yeah that’s three sentences a second
I remember how years ago, I had always kept my Gmail settings on full-paranoia lockdown mode, aside from the auto mailbox sorting feature. However, the first time I had to write an email from that account in a long while, Google’s fucking suggested reply feature that uses all your email history showed up.
The fuck? I never gave permission for this shit.
After doing a deep-cleanse of all the settings on all my accounts again, I deleted all the emails after migrating them to Proton Mail, and keep Gmail accounts only to auto-forward and delete. Or to use the occasional bullshit Google form or document that needs a fucking Gmail login.
I always try to keep my privacy settings to “full paranoia” too. And livid that with each mandatory software update, Big Brother removes all my privacy settings 😠
Wall of Text starting with someone willfully misunderstanding the GUI.
Thumbs down is for AI sucked. Not AI sucks. You are rating the response, not the service you actively chose to use.
I thumbs down you.
Because AI evangelists suck.
Keep licking those boots. It won’t make Sam Altman any more likely to notice you.
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The AI response did suck, because it’s not needed for a two sentence email. It’s wasteful to offer a summary of such a short email. Especially if the summary used more words than the actual email.
A thumbs up or thumbs down is purely a user vibe metric. If you want to filter out 'mis-use", put that as a fucking option in the follow-up or admit that your metrics are trash.
Sounds like this person actively chose not to use it, after it showed up on its own, and then it came back.
So glib comment with the poster not having read the few paragraphs of text.
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