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Rough seas ahead, thats for sure


In terms of climate adaptation, yes. If you're fearing large language models (which have been barely useful for a handful of years now; by the time the first kids grow up in an LLM world, they'll almost certainly have improved again), so far I'm seeing people get a lot more customised answers automatically as compared to being thrown in at the deep end and having to use a combination of partially-applicable answers, reference works, and own judgement. Whether judgement will suffer or if the false confidence of LLMs will only improve it, I have only the past to reference, such as Socrates' worry that the invention of writing would introduce forgetfulness because memory would not be practiced anymore (which, ironically, we now only know because someone else wrote his words down)

Regardless of which future you think more likely, it seems a bit early for a "for sure"!




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