Having lived through the internet, Google and stack overflow revolting I think there is a substantial difference with an LLM.
The previous made it easier to learn things, while LLMs do things for you.
As a result of Google and SO I was really bad in what they replaced.
As a student I memorized all the utilities I had to use frequently, but since the search revolution I keep googlung simplest stuff. "how to check if character is in string" every day because I don't have to remember it.
I might be an exception but I clearly got much worse in knowing things by heart because they are one search away.
Amd I think it's plausible that a person who will only ever work with LLM will never learn to actually code. And if they don't then what will they be able to reliably deliver.
I guess if it would reach the higher level of adoption there would be a very easy way to charge back for the auto- requested stuff.
Also there could be mandatory confirmation required for any amount set.
Want to remove ads? Click and confirm.
For just donating 1c per minute of reading you could have those queued somewhere and still have a chance to explicitly approve it once a month / a week / a day
In the 80s and 90s USA was idolized and admired. Yes, even in the 80s when officially Poland was still in a soviet influence sphere with soviet and communist propaganda being everywhere.
The word "Ameryka" was a colloquial used to describe something amazing, rich, high tech. The myth of American freedom, that in America hard work can lead to personal eneichment were told like fairy tales.
When Poland joined NATO it was like dream come true. There was this huge enthusiasm of becoming officially friends and allies of USA.
I used claude to translate my application and I asked him to translate each text in the application to his best abilities.
That worked great for one view, but when I asked him to translate the rest of the application in the same fashion he got lazy and started to write a script to substitute some words instead of actually translating sentences.
Growing up in Poland all we heard in the news was that "American scientists found that..."
The article could mention the relevant institution but the headline never would as it would rather confuse the reader.
This is also very noticeable in Video Games.
I remember the first time I played One Step From Eden, I thought I would never be able to keep up with it's frantic pace, but the more practice and understanding I had the more the game "slowed down". To a point of course, it's still a fast game but it feels orders of magnitude slower than initially.
Same with e.g. the Souls games, whose bosses are often designed to be visually and audibly overwhelming when you first encounter them. But after a while, when you get better, come back to a fight later, or watch someone else playing, you'll see it very differently from playing yourself, to the point where a lot of things just feel painfully slow and/or clearly telegraphed.
Doesn't make it much easier though as the window for when you should hit that dodge button is still narrow.
I fly fighter jets in a simulator called DCS. When you get task saturated you can feel the time speed up and then slow down. Hearing the RWR scream "missile missile missile" at you slows down the seconds to a crawl as you yank the stick and pray you turned in time to out run it. Then time speeds up to a frantic rush when you are trying to operate the radar and not hit a mountain at the same time.
Human time sense is just so weird when you pay attention to it a little.
Interesting, recently I'm playing squash more often and I'm improving. One of my observations, or mental notes, is that the ball is slow. I have all the time to look at it, see where it's going and decide what's the best moment to hit it back. I thought this observation was the result of being more calm and focused, but maybe it's my brain that's getting faster at this precise task.
> When you get better at juggling, objects really start falling down in slow motion
One tangental optical note effect I only recently noticed is that I shift my eyes quickly to a spinning ceiling fan there is a moment where the fan blade(s) appear to be effectively stationary -- and then transition to the blur that one normally sees.
The other day my friend bounced a ball off the ceiling and we tried to catch it. It's surprisingly frustrating, not expecting the speed from the rebound plus gravity acceleration.
Similarly with alpha Go they claimed to do it "to advance go" and help go community, but they played Lee se dol, released few curated self play games, collected publicity and abandoned go with no artifacts like source or weights.
But in hindsight their paper turned out to be almost 100% reproducible and resulted in super-human open-source alternative less than a year later.
So the story might repeat here. And they will achieve started goal without releasing anything
The point of lottery games is to offer the lowest possible probability of winning that has a perception of being winnable.
So guessing few random small numbers feels easier than picking one random large number.
The whole point of the website is to show those games in a context where people without a math degree will get how low the winning chances are.
So the games with the same winning likelihood Are Not the same game.