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by eapriv 15 days ago
> Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writing.

Why would you do that in the first place? If you are just starting writing about math, I assume your goal would be to get better at it, and using LLMs is not how you get better at writing.

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This is a big fat "it depends". It depends on how you use the llm. You can use the llm to write your homework or you can use the llm as a teaching assistant to help you learn. Different people choose different paths.

I grew up seeing this very relevant image on the wall of my grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7:13#/media/File:Der_b...

Lower quality version with The Eye of Providence not retouced out (the version I remember):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_breite_und_der_s...

> Why would you do that in the first place?

free will kiddo