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massysett | 23 days ago

If I have a blatant disregard for millennia of scriptural knowledge traditions, so did Noah Webster when he compiled a dictionary. So did Carl Linnaeus when he classified species. So did the Human Genome Project. I have a pocket calculator, yet I know how to do long division. I use LLMs to learn and to enhance my work. A dictionary is a shortcut to learning what a word means without consulting an entire written corpus, as the dictionary editors have already done this.

Is my use of a dictionary a blatant disregard for millennia of scriptural knowledge traditions? I don’t think so at all. Rather, it exemplifies how human knowledge advances: we build on the work of our predecessors and contemporaries rather than reinvent the wheel every time. LLM use is an example of this.

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cess11|23 days ago

You're avoiding my question. Since you're comparing yourself to Noah Webster, do you have some examples of your achievements?

rdiddly|23 days ago

You're confused, and as evidence I cite your feigned interest in that guy's achievements, which are irrelevant. You want to argue on the internet.