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  • please don’t drag me into “bias people” conversation

    This whole part is very confusing, and I think you a misreading “you’re going to bias”. Like priming. Say “look at the quality of this” to certain people and they’re far more likely to say it’s beautiful even if they know nothing about it. In this case, being ignorant but trusting can be harmful. Agreed there are some that have no lookalikes. I think we disagree about how much you can trust different sources and how important it is to make that point vs keep beginners overly cautious





  • I think the first part you wrote is a bit hard to parse but I think this is related:

    I think the problematic part of most genAI use cases is validation at the end. If you’re doing something that has a large amount of exploration but a small amount of validation, like this, then it’s useful.

    A friend was using it to learn the linux command line, that can be framed as having a single command at the end that you copy, paste and validate. That isn’t perfect because the explanation could still be off and it wouldn’t be validated but I think it’s still a better use case than most.

    If you’re asking for the grand unifying theory of gravity then:

    • validation isn’t built into the task (so you’re unlikely to do it with time).
    • validation could be as time intensive as the task (so there is no efficiency gain if you validate).
    • its beyond your ability to validate so if it says nice things about you then a subset of people will decide the tool is amazing.