Readit NewsWell, if I enjoy it (to some degree, because it serves the story), wouldn't some other entities do too ?
Why can't we recognize that we do not stand at the endpoint of life and science but (hopefully) at one of its many segments, and that maybe not being able to calculate something does not equate its impossibility ?
To paraphrase Lee Iacocca: We must stop and ask ourselves, how much videogames do we really need?
Funny you should mention him, I am very interested in his conceptions about the nature of reality:
'Planck said in 1944, "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent spirit [orig. geist]. This spirit is the matrix of all matter."'
The Wikipedia might lack the interactivity I enjoy from the technology ? I mean, I'm all up for local LLMs, but currently this just seems overpriced...
I disagree. I get egregious mistakes often from them.
> because I'm able to always get an explanation
Reading an explanation may feel like learning, but I doubt it. It is the effort of going from problem/doubt to constructing a solution - and the explanation is a mere description of the solution - that is learning. Knowing words to that effect is not exactly learning. It is an emulation of learning, a simulacrum. And that would be bad enough if we could trust LLMs to produce sound explanations every time.
So not only getting the explanation is a surrogate of learning something, you also risk internalizing spurious explanations.
I am not a physicist and I will most likely never require to do anything related to quantum physics in my daily life. But it's fun to be able to have a quick mental model to "have an idea" about who was Max Planck.
The damage done by instant messaging and endless entertainment is unfathomable.
We, and more importantly our kids, are becoming dumber and this is but another proof on the pile. What is to be done about it ? Raise luddites ?
I wish this would still work. Today's kids would instantly use AI to solve it.
Does anyone have an idea for a challenge that will instill some level of technical literacy without being instantly gameable in the era of omnipresent LLMs?
Out of the 5 answers it gave, those ones seemed interesting :
>The Hardware Whisperer (Requires Simple Hardware): >Setup: Requires a cheap microcontroller like a Raspberry Pi Pico or an ESP32/ESP8266, plus maybe an LED or a button. >Task: "Make the LED blink out 'SOS' in Morse code when you press the button." Or: "Read the value from this simple sensor (e.g., temperature) and print it to the serial monitor only if it's above a certain threshold." >Why it works: LLMs can generate MicroPython or Arduino C++ code easily. However, the user must deal with the physical wiring, installing drivers/firmware tools, uploading the code, and debugging why it's not working (Is the code wrong? Is the wiring loose? Is the board getting power?). This physical interaction layer is opaque to the LLM.
>Setup: Create a very simple text-based game (e.g., navigate a maze, guess a number with clues, a basic simulation) that runs locally. The game's state changes with each command. >Task: "Reach the end of the maze / Win the game." The rules might not be fully explained, requiring experimentation. >Why it works: The LLM can't play the game directly because it doesn't have access to the running process or its internal state. The user must interact with it, observe the output, and decide on the next input. They might use an LLM to suggest strategies or even write a script to automate playing the game (if the interaction pattern is simple enough), which itself teaches valuable skills.
You imagine suffering from our point of view. Try to imagine that a God might see you as you see Bruce Wayne in the comics.