https://x.com/_dave__white_/status/1947461492783386827

dave is one of the ppl i know who used llms a lot to refine ideas

does anyone think current pace of growth is like net-beneficial

feels like linear growth in capabilities would have been much better for our psyches

instead we're in a world where ppl run into llm induced psychosis and our brains can't keep up

Am not a serious researcher or mathematician etc, but am recently using LLMs to learn a lot of data analytics (both the math and the practical coding in python). I cannot imagine current pace of growth is bad, rate of learning is naturally capped, people will stop learning much earlier than the pace of growth can peak. If anything, social media is more damaging to our psyche than AI itself.

I agree that llms can be used productively

I use them to ask coding qs as well!

Also agree that shortform content / social media has been pretty bad

I think llms exacerbate this (eg via slop / roughly human-looking content, at cheap and at scale)

And i think they are competing for attention in ways we don't have good cultural or mental safeguards against