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by RecycledEle 1037 days ago
We are all myopic in our own ways.

The guy who posted about blocking OpenAI so they will not answer questions about his software wrong (meaning not completely) ignores that his documentation is inaccessible to many less technically literate people. LLM AIs help bridge the gap to get newbies using software before they can understand the manuals.
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NoZebra120vClip 1036 days ago
When I entered college, my first Pascal course was on an SVR3 Unix system, and I read every manpage that I can find, because it was fantastic that I had access to that. Previously, I had read every shred of documentation of the Commodore 65xx systems, which generously included every technical detail possible. I mean, I had basically started on this in fifth grade. Reading manuals is how I gained my technical literacy.
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gavinhoward 1037 days ago
How do you know my docs are inaccessible to less technically literate people?
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