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by lordnacho 1184 days ago
If you think of cognitive tasks as a hierarchy it makes more sense. It's a big task to think through and plan an essay, but it's a little cognitive task to check your grammar and citations. If you can get an LLM to do the little things, you can practice the higher level stuff.

I guess the question is whether you are actually learning the higher level stuff by getting help with the lower level stuff. I think on some level you would, like how having a calculator when you're doing higher level math helps you think about the problem rather than the details.