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Thoughts on thinking

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648 points bradgessler | 1 comments | 16 May 25 19:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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taylorallred ◴[16 May 25 19:32 UTC] No.44009019[source]▶
Among the many ways that AI causes me existential angst, you've reminded me of another one. That is, the fact that AI pushes you towards the most average thoughts. It makes sense, given the technology. This scares me because creative thought happens at the very edge. When you get stuck on a problem, like you mentioned, you're on the cusp of something novel that will at the very least grow you as a person. The temptation to use AI could rob you of the novelty in favor what has already been done.
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MoonGhost ◴[16 May 25 23:25 UTC] No.44010693[source]▶
> AI pushes you towards

That's interesting point. But here is the thing: you are supposed to drive. Not AI god. Look at it as at an assistant whom you can interrupt, instruct, correct, ask to redo. While focusing on 'what' you can delegate it some 'how' problems.

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1. taylorallred ◴[17 May 25 13:12 UTC] No.44014068[source]▶
Yeah this is a fair point. In honesty, the attempts I have made to have GPT help me think creatively has usually left me disappointed and feeling like it was picking safe, middle-of-the-road solutions. That could be on my prompting skills but also I tend to view LLMs as more of a fuzzy information retrieval tool than a creative/reasonable one. It just hasn’t shown me original ideas that have seemed compelling to me yet (maybe I just need to beg it to be more “original”).