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by lokrian 293 days ago
The question I keep wondering about is why teach anything, or what exactly is worth teaching.
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Because, nature in its infinite wisdom, gets rid of what's not used.

You don't use your muscles? They atrophy. You don't make an effort to travel without a gps regularily, to force your brain to remember your way around naturally? Your spatial memory atrophies and becomes useless [here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0 ]

People don't need to learn math anymore, hence, no more calculus lessons? People are literally becoming idiots who can't calculate simple change at the cash register without pulling out their calculators.

It's exercise. It keeps the brain itself from atrophying. It stops you from becoming a "wetware LLM" that's just parroting whatever echo of a thought (natural or otherwise) goes through it.

Reading Pump Six will provide a partial answer.
Anything where you care about getting the right answer?
How to use an LLM