Post #1127979
2026-04-09 19:04 UTC
RE: https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/116375811993176529
And this is what #LLMs s destroy.
The human joy of just figuring shit out.
Doesn't matter if it's useful now. Someday it could be invaluable. Or it may not.
Like how people studied bees and ants to understand how they decided on the best routes between their homes and their food.
That understanding ended up embodied in how packet routing happens on the internet.
You would not be reading this if people had not studied the social behaviour of ants.
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@aadeacon@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 12:52
@se_davidobrien@mastodon.scot There is no such thing as "useless" knowledge, it is knowledge we do not yet have use for.