“Technologies that relieve frustrating #struggle can make our efforts more productive and can increase our ability to do good work, whereas technologies that eliminate #productive struggle diminish our capacities and prevent us from becoming the kind of people able to exercise our #freedom responsibly and redemptively.”
“Solviture ambulando, it is solved by #walking, is the only fitting response to some queries, yet no LLM can provide answers of this type.”
“Interacting with #LLMs trains us to expect pre-formed answers from the void rather than endure the #productive effort of #conversation – literally, turning back and forth with another person in pursuit of #truth.”
“#Thinking and #writing are among the many realms of human work where the line between #frustrating and #productive struggle remains blurry.”
“to the extent that we are invited to outsource the effort of #sensemaking, our intellectual and #creative abilities will atrophy and our #relationships will suffer.”
“Technologies that relieve frustrating #struggle can make our efforts more productive and can increase our ability to do good work, whereas technologies that eliminate #productive struggle diminish our capacities and prevent us from becoming the kind of people able to exercise our #freedom responsibly and redemptively.”
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